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‘You’re a jackass!’: Elon Musk loses cool with ex-Twitter employee during Spaces chat | NY Post

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk blasted a former software engineer for the company as a “jackass” during a heated spat over the mogul’s push to revamp the embattled social media app.

Musk said Twitter would have to do a “total rewrite of the whole thing” if it wanted to have a “really high velocity” during a Twitter Spaces voice chat hosted by George Hotz on Wednesday.

The remark prompted a response from Ian Brown, a developer for Netflix who worked at Twitter for eight years before leaving the company in October 2021.

“Wait, seriously, a total rewrite? That’s your prediction for velocity?” Brown said.

“Yeah,” Musk responded.

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