T-Mobile and Sprint CEOs battle it out on Twitter

Rivals John Legere, of T-Mobile, and Marcelo Claure, of Sprint, have been exchanging emotive insults on Twitter recently.

The competing CEOs have been having aggressive exchanges since Legere insulted Sprint’s iPhone plan by tweeting: “First “iPhone for Life” died. Now “iPhone Forever” expires in Dec. Next up, “iPhone for eternity,” expiring this afternoon. #SprintLikeHell.”

To this, Claure responded with “@sprint we just keep #gettingbettereveryday. Improving our network sorry @JohnLegere and #Twho YOU ARE LAST AGAIN”. This was coupled with a screenshot of a graph from RootMetrics that showed the overall performance of the top mobile phone network operators in the first half of 2015. T-Mobile was depicted as fourth with a score of 82.0, behind Sprint with a score of 87.5.

Legere replies: “You know this isn’t a reliable study, man! Why do we have to go through this every time???” This was followed by: “That time of year again! Couple guys from @rootmetrics drive around, get paid by carriers to test networks on a single old-generation phone.”

And then: “Did you see @marceloclaure’s crazy tweet rant about this report? Those porting ratios must really be getting to him ;) Hang in there, buddy!”

Claure then responded with a picture that parodied the new ‘Straight Outta Compton’ film. The black and white still of Legere, read: “Straight Outta Bullsh*t”.

To which Legere replied: “straight outta ideas.”

Not long after, another tweet from T-Mobile’s CEO read: “Its 10pm ..That's about 2 hours before @marceloclaure of @sprint usually should just stop and sleep but goes on Twitter #countdowntobabbling”

The exchange ended with Claure saying: “good night John. Fun day today. Thanks for keeping it fun and competitive.” And Legere responding with a reference to rival Verizon’s latest advert by saying: “@marceloclaure let's meet up. You can thank me with a great dinner, then we can hunt the customer birds in the silly VZ commercial :).”