Elon Musk lost his cool when he was asked a pointed question about Twitter’s software engineering on Tuesday night, before branding his interrogator a ‘moron’.
The billionaire owner of the platform – who recently announced he was stepping down as CEO – was speaking during a Twitter Space, hosted by renowned hacker George Hotz, when he was pressed for more specific details by Ian Brown, who worked at Twitter for eight years and is now at Netflix.
Answering a question from Hotz, Musk, 51, said Twitter would need a ‘total rewrite of the whole thing’ if the platform wanted to have a ‘really high velocity’.
This prompted a surprised response from Brown, who was given the virtual microphone to question the ‘Chief Twit’ in the space.
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