---
title: "A Data Scientist Resigned From Twitter and Blasted Elon Musk Directly to His Face"
description: "A Twitter data scientist who was all set to resign reportedly told off CEO Elon Musk as revealed in a new book about Musk and Twitter."
date: "2024-09-18"
modified: "2024-09-18"
authors:
  - name: "Sharon Adarlo"
    job_title: "Correspondent"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/sadarlo"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/data-scientist-twitter-elon-musk"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "the digest"
  - "twitter"
  - "X"
---

# A Data Scientist Resigned From Twitter and Blasted Elon Musk Directly to His Face

![A Twitter data scientist who was all set to resign reportedly told off CEO Elon Musk as revealed in a new book about Musk and Twitter.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/data-scientist-twitter-elon-musk.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Richard Bord / WireImage via Getty\</em\>*

## Quit Clown

A Twitter data scientist who was set to resign reportedly told CEO Elon Musk what a lot of users are thinking these days: "I hope you’ll declare bankruptcy and let someone else run the company."

That anecdote and other eye-opening revelations are at the center of the just-released book "[Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter](<https://www.amazon.com/Character-Limit-Elon-Destroyed-Twitter/dp/059365613X?tag=futurism0b-20>)," by *New York Times* reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, who take readers inside how Musk has transformed the social network, now called X, into a shambolic mess of bots and extremist hate accounts.

The departing employee was initially pleased that Musk had taken over the company, as [flagged by *Rolling Stone*](<https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter-wtf-character-limit-book-1235099284/>), but grew increasingly alarmed, especially after Musk [shared a deranged and incorrect conspiracy theory](<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/30/musk-deleted-tweet-pelosi/>) about Nancy Pelosi's husband after a home invader attacked him with a hammer.

"It’s only really like the tenth percentile of the adult population who’d be gullible enough to fall for this," the data scientist told Musk during a face-to-face meeting.

"Fuck you!" Musk shouted back.

## Fail Whale

There are even more bonkers revelations in the book, but you don't really need to read all these anecdotes to get a sense that X-formerly-Twitter is adrift and that Musk is a terrible manager.

If you've spent any length of time on the site, you will be inundated with [sex or porn bots](<https://futurism.com/porn-bot-accounts-chinese-protest-twitter>) and dubious accounts with [paid blue checks](<https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/tech/musk-twitter-blue-check-mark/index.html>) [peddling conspiracy theories](<https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/15/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checks-verification-disinformation-propaganda-russia-china-trust-safety/>), with [Musk as chief pusher of fake news](<https://futurism.com/elon-musk-rabbis-antisemitism>) on the app.

Not to mention arcane tech glitches, like last year when the [website became unusable](<https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-changes-tweetdeck-rate-limit-rcna92369>) due to "rate limit exceeded" messages.

And because of Musk's mismanagement and his mercurial presence on the app, [advertisers](<https://qz.com/twitter-x-ad-revenue-tumbles-elon-musk-grok-1851624340>) and [users](<https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fewer-people-using-elon-musks-x-struggles-keep-users-rcna144115>) have left in droves — leading Musk [to sue advertisers](<https://apnews.com/article/x-sues-advertisers-unilever-cvs-mars-orsted-673d1ae88e9fb0ca5b170d238739453e>) over this supposed mass boycott.

Here's a thought: perhaps Musk should have listened to that data scientist and left the website in more competent hands.

**More on Elon Musk:** [*Paranoid Elon Musk Now Constantly Surrounded by 20 Armed Bodyguards and a Medic*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-armed-bodyguards-security>)