Geohot did not last long at Twitter. The famous hacker who managed to jailbreak the PS3 and the first versions of iOS announced that he left Twitter after less than 6 weeks in the company. He originally planned to stay for 12 weeks.
Resigned from Twitter today.
Appreciate the opportunity, but didn’t think there was any real impact I could make there. Besides, it was sad to see my GitHub withering. Back to coding! pic.twitter.com/Jbs9LxNB2K
— George Hotz ???? (@realGeorgeHotz) December 20, 2022
« I appreciate the opportunity, but I don’t think I can make a real impact. Also, it was sad to see my GitHub wither “, he explains in a tweet. Geohot had been hired to repair the social network’s search function and also worked on removing the pop-up requiring you to enter your credentials after a certain time spent on the site without being connected. This can now be closed by clicking on a small cross that appeared recently.
This departure is not really surprising: at the beginning of the week, Geohot had posted a survey parodying Musk’s asking if he should leave his post. He had also been rather hostile to Twitter’s new policy prohibiting the distribution of external links, which did not not held 24 hours.
The developer is not leaving on bad terms and has announcement to be ” always in favor of the success of Twitter 2.0 “. His hiring had surprised everyone: Geohot and Elon Musk have a complicated history, in particular due to the fact that the hacker launched a company marketing an alternative to Tesla’s Autopilot that can be integrated into standard cars.