Twitter fired this guy one day after learning that he called homeless people 'degenerates'

On October 18 news surfaced that Twitter had hired Gregory Gopman to help lead its VR initiatives as a project manager.

He was fired the next day.

"Anddd I'm fired," Gopman wrote on Facebook Wednesday. "Thanks TechCrunch."

His reason for citing TechCrunch was that the tech site surfaced a 2013 Facebook post he made in which he called homeless people in San Francisco "degenerates" and "a burden."

Gopman was roundly excoriated for the post when it was published in 2013, and he publicly apologized for "inappropriate comments" that "trivialized" the plight of homeless people.

Apparently Twitter was somehow unaware of all the drama until it was posted by TechCrunch alongside the news about him joining the company.

"They [TechCrunch] wrote a smash piece on me last night and [Twitter] comms didn't want to deal with it," Gopman, whose Facebook page uses the alias Gregory Gops, confirmed on Facebook on Wednesday.

A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on Gopman's departure. Gopman didn't respond to Business Insider's requests for comment.

Here's the Copman's post from 2013, which he has since deleted: