India, Sept. 22 -- A top executive who helped Twitter's transition and rebranding to 'X' after Elon Musk bought the social media platform has pointedly criticised the prohibitive $100,000 fee imposed by President Donald Trump on H-1B visas, by which mostly Indian and tech workers work in the US.

She also wrote against the general anti-immigrant sentiment among large sections of Americans.

Esther Crawford, who served as director of product management at Twitter/X, said the platform could survive only because of engineers from India and China on H-1B visas.

"They stayed after the acquisition, worked long hours and solved brutally complex problems alongside American colleagues," she wrote in a post on X.

"When posting anti-immigrant take...