Dive Brief:

• Less than two months after being hired as PayPal’s director of strategy, Rakesh Agrawal is out after sending several offensive, and sometimes incomprehensible, tweets aimed at some of his colleagues, apparently while he was at Jazz Fest in New Orleans.

• The tweets were critical and used foul language. Agrawal said he was using a new phone and meant them as direct messages, which would have been private.

• On Saturday PayPal tweeted out: "Rakesh Agrawal is no longer with the company. Treat everyone with respect. No excuses. PayPal has zero tolerance.” Agrawal insists he quit before that.

Dive Insight:

This whole incident is pretty weird, but the most delicious piece may be that Agrawal says the debacle happened because he couldn’t handle the Twitter interface on his new Android phone. The now-former PayPal executive says he’s already on to his next big thing, although there’s no news about what exactly that is. Hopefully he has learned the lesson many kids figure out in middle school — that compulsive use of your mobile phone can have dire consequences. And, because Agrawal got into trouble with tweets previously, before he took on his PayPal position, perhaps PayPal will be more careful of future hires as well.