‘You’re a jackass!’ Moment Chief Twit Elon Musk loses his cool when he’s asked a pointed question

Elon Musk lost his cool when asked a blunt question about Twitter’s software engineering Tuesday night, before calling his questioner a “jerk.”

The billionaire owner of the platform was speaking during a Twitter space, hosted by renowned hacker George Hotz, when Ian Brown, a former Twitter employee of eight years who now works for Netflix, pressed him for more specific details.

Responding to a question from Hotz, Musk, 51, said Twitter would need a “total rewrite of everything” if the platform wanted to be “really high speed.”

This prompted a surprised response from Brown, who was given the virtual microphone to question ‘Chief Twit’ in space.

‘Wait, seriously, a total rewrite? Is that your prediction of speed? Brown interrupted. “Yes,” Musk is heard, quickly responding to the question.

‘Well, when you say a total rewrite, do you mean start with the skeleton?’ Hotz intervened in the interrogation. ‘Or a bunch of engineers sit down with a whiteboard and say, “What is Twitter?” Revolution or reform?

After some mumbling, Musk responded, “I mean, I just think, literally, you could try to fix the crazy stack that’s out there or rewrite it.”

Brown saw this as another opportunity to ask a question: ‘When you say crazy stack, what do you mean? Break it down.’

In basic terms, a ‘stack’ is a technology term that refers to the collection of technologies used to create a software product like Twitter.

Musk responds by asking Brown if he had seen a diagram made by Hotz, who had resigned from Twitter earlier that day. This caused Brown to laugh.

Musk and Brown are heard talking to each other, with Brown trying to get a firmer response from the billionaire. “Come on buddy, come on,” says Brown.

Suddenly, Musk’s tone changes. ‘You are… who are you?’ he asks nervously.

‘What do you mean who am I? I don’t know, you gave me the fucking microphone,” Brown asks, clearly taken aback by Musk’s attempt to avoid answering his questions.

Hotz interrupted the conversation again at this point. “Let’s keep it civil in my space,” he is heard saying over the other two speakers.

‘I mean, man, you’re in charge of the servers and the programming and whatever. What’s the stack, Elon? Brown asks again.

‘Take me up and down. What does the stack look like right now? What’s crazy? What’s so abnormal about this pile compared to any other large-scale system on the planet, my friend? Come on! Give it to me.

Rather than answer his question, a clearly agitated Musk resorted to making ad hominem attacks on Brown.

‘So first of all, amazing. Wow. You’re an idiot,’ Musk says.

Brown can be heard laughing in response, as Hotz again calls for calm.

‘Haha it’s fine! I have no cred here, man, I have no idea what I’m talking about-‘ Brown says sarcastically, as his virtual microphone is removed.

‘Okay! What an asshole,” Musk says in response, in an attempt to have the last word in the embarrassing exchange.

Hotz, a notorious hacker known for jailbreaking iOS and reverse-engineering the PlayStation 3 (and the subsequent lawsuit filed by Sony), was hired by Musk in November to help him “fix” Twitter.

However, 12 weeks later, he announced on the floor form that he was resigning, saying he “didn’t think there would be any real impact.” [he] could do there’.

The Twitter space came after Musk announced he is stepping down as CEO of Twitter after being beaten in his own disastrous poll on the platform.

The Tesla boss said when he uploaded the survey that he would “deliver” with the result, even if users said he should resign.

The result was confirmed Monday morning, with a total of 57.5 percent of more than 17 million accounts voting for him to step down.

And on Wednesday, he confirmed that he would step down from the role he held during his $44 billion acquisition once he finds a “dumb enough” replacement to replace him.

The billionaire tweeted: ‘I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone dumb enough to take the job! After that, I’ll just be running the software and server teams.

Normally a prolific user of the platform, Musk, who also runs automaker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, did not tweet in the hours immediately following the survey.

He broke his silence just before 11:30 p.m. Monday, when he replied, “Interesting,” to a suggestion by convicted fraudster Kim Dotcom that the poll results were skewed by fake accounts.

In response to another user’s suggestion that “blue subscribers should be the only ones who can vote in polls related to politics,” Musk said, “Good point.” Twitter will make that change.’

His Twitter stream continued into the early hours of Tuesday morning, linking to the site’s World Cup stats and laughing at a satirical take on Bruce Wayne taking a poll about stepping down as Batman.

Rapper Snoop Dogg jokingly conducted a poll of his own, asking his followers if he should replace Musk by posing the question, “Should I run Twitter?”

After ten hours, 81.8 percent of the million people who voted in his poll said yes.

It also came in the wake of more revelations from the ‘Twitter Files’, the most recent edition of which revealed that FBI officials demanded executives from the social media giant give them information about how they were enforcing online security.