Tweets From Kellie Peterson  ## Metadata - Author: [[@kellie on Twitter]] - Full Title: Tweets From Kellie Peterson - Category: #tweets - URL: https://twitter.com/kellie ## Document Notes ## Highlights - No, I wasn't kidding. The whole point of Blind is to protect people's identity, but at Automattic now you have to out yourself to Matt in order to gain access. So weird man. #automattic #wpdrama @wordpress https://t.co/7GlZbQSUh7 https://t.co/dVBeecK7E0  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1842231237903282391)) - You may not understand the level of bravery it takes to speak out like this. @photomatt wields outsized power to cause financial harm to former employees, partners, affiliates, etc. Good on you @iannuttall https://t.co/vpm2wGthmv ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1845419052946293080)) - When you lose the #1 & #2 people from both https://t.co/TzpVIu70fc and #WordPress, head of HR, your general counsel, and associate counsel, your own chief of staff, the CFO of Woo, the head of Trust & Safety and dozens more you might want to take a moment to reflect. #wpdrama ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1845191375740154275)) - Remember when @GoDaddy used to be "an existential threat"? I'll give you three guesses what changed after that. Oh look... in those tweets, is that @wpengine I see? It's a pattern peeps. https://t.co/kfxsOfJpfs #wpdrama #mattmullenweg #OpenSource #showmethemoney https://t.co/9ir2ENeOHy ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1848878808537174058)) - Why did the WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway plugin change from a WooCommerce thumbnail to Stripe? And why is it now saying this is a plugin by Stripe? Is Automattic doing more shady trademark infringing shit or did they sell this plugin to Stripe? #wpdrama #Wordpress https://t.co/fgsvyA5YvC   ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1851996846501081373)) - Matt Mullenweg tweeting through it behind the official @wordpress acct. What gross sexist language to use. An embarrassment to any brand, but gosh golly me if this kind of stuff doesn’t kill his “nice guy” image as a bonus. #wordpressterrorism #wpdrama https://t.co/scWAHcnpB9   ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1851904296796733515)) - I feel like we are seeing the tipping point for this happening to Automattic. The last video entry is my favorite with so many similarities between Yahoo and Automattic. To me the big question is who is Google’s counterpart? [wpengine](https://twitter.com/wpengine) [wix](https://twitter.com/wix) [squarespace](https://twitter.com/squarespace) or another player? #wpdrama ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1854828153656520873)) - Almost funny enough to make me forget when @photomatt continued to put profit over people by hosting @infowars even after Leonard Pozner pleaded with him to at least remove his dead son’s photo. https://t.co/Le0bNMqKgi #wordpressterrorism #wpdrama https://t.co/0PWLs1Z3qn ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1857084415584657451)) - Disgruntled open source zealot who became a "billionaire" on the backs of free labor from tens of thousands of free laborers is mad he has to stop harassing, maligning, and trying to extort his biggest competitor. #newsat11 #wpdrama https://t.co/eXW1uWjXz7 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1867759422321410168)) - Oy. [photomatt](https://twitter.com/photomatt) is doing himself no favors on Reddit. You either enforce trademark or you don't. It's not a matter of how big, little, PE backed, or insignificant you believe the company you alledge is infringing. You have to defend equally. [wpengine](https://twitter.com/wpengine) cannot be held to a different standard because you have an axe to grind. #wpdrama  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1871731190363025630)) - Oy. [photomatt](https://twitter.com/photomatt) is doing himself no favors on Reddit. You either enforce trademark or you don't. It's not a matter of how big, little, PE backed, or insignificant you believe the company you allege is infringing. You have to defend equally. [wpengine](https://twitter.com/wpengine) cannot be held to a different standard because you have an axe to grind. #wpdrama  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1871728051698237726)) - Imagine @photomatt what you could have done if you actually did that all along instead of micromanaging every little thing? You will never be a fraction of the leader that @heatherjbrunner is though. You just don't have it in you. #WPdrama https://t.co/qEJKU5E5t6 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1877483664013144297)) - Let me take your metaphor for a spin. You found an abandoned plot of land (cafelog/b2) and you cleared the weeds and you got grants and a loan to run some electric and plumbing to the land. You invited others to pitch tents, plant flowers, fruits, and vegetables, graze animals, build storefronts, malls, and eventually build sky scrapers on it. That land is a lot more valuable now because it's been developed. But who did the work? #wpdrama #wordpressterrorism ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1879682864830414958)) - https://t.co/yWab1cWb8D #mullenwegwho? ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1931069520187388157)) - Bombshell news out of the @altctrlorg event alongside #WCEU: FAIR (Federated and Independent Repositories) introduces a #wordpress package manager in an aim to fully decentralize & futureproof WP by insulating the ecosystem from the anti-competitive whims of @photomatt Backed by ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/kellie/status/1931065859495387473)) ## New Highlights added 2026-04-15 at 3:42 PM - He's been ranting about the sad state of https://t.co/WQEL7OeIeb too and "led" that right into the ground too. He does not have "product vision" in the slightest. He has "product envy" and there is no little blue pill to fix that. https://t.co/T1CCRubTMa ([View Tweet](https://x.com/kellie/status/2044439896568270862)) - Instead of cutting head count, maybe you should take a page from Jensen Huang. Get better ideas. "For companies with imagination, you will do more with more. For companies where the leadership is just out of ideas, they have nothing else to do. #wordpress #automattic #ai #layoff ([View Tweet](https://x.com/kellie/status/2040193469080305794)) - Then he's planning to spin up agents to do the tasks that haven't been done. As someone who regularly pushed back against his asks because they would breach contracts I have to scoff. Maybe your ideas just aren't that good. You know, like the 100 year plan?? ([View Tweet](https://x.com/kellie/status/2040193467364880674)) - According to sources @photomatt is a day late celebrating the one year anniversary of laying off 16% of his staff by threatening to layoff 85% of the staff because they haven't done what he told them to do. He's using AI to scour meeting notes, transcripts, even public speeches. ([View Tweet](https://x.com/kellie/status/2040193465942941794)) ## New Highlights added 2026-09-15 at 9:13 PM - The god complex with this guy. "I’m holding the Open Web (and Open Source) side of the fort down. It’s critical for the future of humanity." Oh brother. https://t.co/aLJHEQNOg7 ([View Tweet](https://x.com/kellie/status/2099968484189114512)) ## New Highlights added 2026-09-16 at 6:42 PM - It's cool... you don't have to think critically about things. I would prefer not to. Alas, there's this dirtbag former (on paper) billionaire out there doing really crappy things. Exploiting volunteers, blackmailing women, and just generally being a dickhead. I don't like that. https://t.co/RWZmuwPGmZ  ([View Tweet](https://x.com/kellie/status/2100099115141198089)) ## New Highlights added 2026-09-17 at 12:50 AM - TechCrunch’s severance story raises an important question: who actually authorized these agreements? “Davies and Missan signed each other’s severance deals” sounds dramatic. But signing a corporate agreement is not the same thing as approving the compensation. 1/8 #wpdrama ([View Tweet](https://x.com/kellie/status/2100436206781710546)) ## New Highlights added 2026-09-19 at 9:08 AM - From TC: Internal slack announcement of interim CFO ends with @photomatt saying: I have 100% confidence in our cash and financial position... There is still work to do, but everything is within our control and depends only on Automattic’s ability to execute.” #wpdrama ([View Tweet](https://x.com/kellie/status/2101064160406904923)) ## New Highlights added 2026-09-26 at 11:24 AM - mShots is an Automattic joint, no? Should an unauthenticated screenshot service allow arbitrary JavaScript running in its browser to make essentially unrestricted outbound network requests? Not the first time Automattic has been exploited though. Eh? https://t.co/QPrZSU586E https://t.co/ZaU9EtiHKo ([View Tweet](https://x.com/kellie/status/2103707281066278978))