Elon Musk's former Twitter lieutenant 'surprised by his willingness to burn so much down'

Elon Musk is consenting to "burn truthful overmuch down" and lives wrong an "echo chamber," a erstwhile apical Twitter lieutenant wrote successful a lengthy post Wednesday connected Musk's societal media network, which alternated betwixt defending and criticizing the billionaire.

Esther Crawford, the erstwhile Twitter Blue merchandise manager who drew attraction for sleeping successful the company's offices lone to beryllium laid disconnected weeks later, said that during her tenure nether Musk, she recovered herself "frequently looking astatine Elon and seeing a idiosyncratic who seemed rather unsocial due to the fact that his clip and vigor was truthful purely devoted to work."

"Money and fame tin make intelligence prisons which whitethorn worsen intelligence wellness conditions," Crawford added.

It was a crisp critique of a antheral who Crawford had publically supported during her clip astatine Twitter. Crawford oversaw the relaunch of Twitter Blue, 1 of Musk's aboriginal and hotly debated decisions astatine the company.

But the archetypal rollout of Twitter Blue was afloat of turmoil, implicit with impersonation issues, stacked verification badges and suspended motorboat successful immoderate areas. Widely panned by bequest verified users, the debut besides precipitated steep slides successful astatine slightest 1 company's banal terms aft fraudulent accounts disseminated mendacious but market-moving information.

Crawford alluded astatine the difficulties posed by moving for Musk, whom she described arsenic having a temper that could "turn connected a dime."

"Since it was hard to work what temper helium mightiness beryllium successful and what his absorption would beryllium to immoderate fixed thing, radical rapidly became acrophobic of being called into meetings oregon having to stock antagonistic quality with him," Crawford wrote.

"His deficiency of process and empathy is painful," she continued, adding that successful her view, Musk "has an exceptional endowment for tackling hard physics-based problems, but products that facilitate quality transportation and connection necessitate a antithetic benignant of social-emotional intelligence."

At immoderate points, Crawford besides defended Musk, penning that his way grounds made it intolerable to number him out. Musk is besides the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, the second of which CNBC has reported is under probe by the California Attorney General regarding information and mendacious advertizing complaints.

"This whitethorn truly irritate the net but you cannot pigeonhole maine into immoderate extremist presumption of either loving oregon hating each alteration that's occurred," Crawford wrote. "I escaped my fundamentalist upbringing and americium a escaped thinker these days."