Musk’s ‘erratic’ leadership will cause Twitter’s downfall, Mastodon founder says

“I would say it shows incompetence and a lack of understanding of the industry that he’s entered and the platform that he’s now in charge of,” Mr Rochko said

The founder of Mastodon has said Twitter has a ‘real chance of disappearing’ under Elon Musk’s management which has seen the social media platform’s workforce of engineers decimated (Gregory Bull/AP)

The founder of Mastodon has said Twitter has a “real chance of disappearing” under Elon Musk’s management which has seen the social media platform’s workforce of engineers decimated.

Eugen Rochko, a 29-year-old programmer from Germany who created Mastodon as a decentralised alternative to Twitter in 2017, called the billionaire CEO’s leadership style “erratic”, saying it showed “incompetence”.