PlayStation 3, iOS hacker George Hotz leaves Twitter internship after one month
American hacker George Hotz, also known by his online alias "geohot," has resigned from his internship at Twitter. He accepted a 12-week internship at the social media platform in November this year and quit after just a month.
Hotz was brought in to help fix some technical issues on the platform, including login popup errors, and to improve search engine functionality.
The software engineer announced his resignation in a series of tweets. He explained that his decision came after reading Twitter's code and realizing that he would not be able to make a meaningful impact. One of his tweets read:
George Hotz, who is well-known for his development of iOS jailbreaks and crafting PlayStation 3 security breaches, was offered a 12-week internship at Twitter in November. However, he resigned just a month after officially accepting the position.
In his tweets, Hotz thanked the social media platform for the opportunity. The hacker added that he didn't think he would be able to make meaningful changes during the allotted time of his internship. He also expressed his intention to resume his activities on the code hosting platform GitHub.
Hotz clarified that he never promised to make the fixes he promised during the three-month internship but that he would attempt to. He went on to say that he did not believe it would be possible to make said changes in a timely manner after reading the code.
One of his tweets read:
Hotz suggested that the changes he sought to make would not have much impact due to the bigger developments taking place on Twitter. Two of the factors he named were internal politics and a push for new features.
Lastly, Hotz said his expectations of working at Twitter going into the internship were much different from reality.
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