Former Twitter employee alleges age discrimination in lawsuit

By Riley Snyder

A former Twitter employee is suing the company, alleging that the social media giant fired him for being too old.

The lawsuit was filed by former Twitter employee Peter Taylor, who alleged he was fired last year with no warning and a month after the then-57-year-old underwent surgery to remove kidney stones.

The suit says Taylor saved Twitter millions of dollars during its data center expansion and met all performance review standards before he was fired and replaced by workers in their 20s and 30s.

Taylor, who worked as Twitter’s manager of data center deployment, said in the suit that his supervisor made “at least one critical remark” about his age during the firing. He also alleged that the company, based in San Francisco, refused to accommodate his needs after the kidney-stone surgery and assigned him additional work during his recovery process.

In a statement, Twitter said it would fight the lawsuit.

Former Twitter employee alleges age discrimination in lawsuit