Posted on 05/01/2023 5:14:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey admitted “it all went south” for the social media behemoth when new owner Elon Musk purchased the site for an incredible $44 billion last year.
Dorsey sharply criticized Musk last week after he initially backed the billionaire to guide the site into the future a year ago.
When asked on his emerging social media site Bluesky Friday if Musk was the right man to lead the platform, Dorsey replied “no,” according to reports.
“Nor do I think he acted right after realizing his timing was bad,” Dorsey wrote, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Nor do I think the board should have forced the sale. It all went south.”
Bluesky is a competing alternative to Twitter funded by Dorsey and is currently invite-only.
One Bluesky user noted it was pretty sad how it all went down, with Dorsey agreeing.
However, he noted that Twitter “would have never survived as a public company.”
“Would you rather have had it owned by hedge funds and Wall Street activists? That was the only alternative,” Dorsey said, according to Bloomberg.
Musk has made major and controversial changes at Twitter since he took over as CEO in October. He slashed more than half the staff and tweaked content moderation.
He also has pitched a Twitter subscription service where users can pay $8 per month to get a blue check mark.
Legacy check marks, previously reserved for high profile users on the site, were lost in April though some users claim they were given a blue check mark without paying for the subscription service.
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When twitter first got popular I remember thinking about idiots broadcasting a few words at a time and what a waste of time it must be but then the site became ‘the news’ and I was sure that twitter was full of idiots.
As a Southerner, that sounds like a good thing!
When asked on his emerging social media site Bluesky...An even slightly less credulous reporter would have pointed that out more explicitly. As is, it's simply a native ad.
Jack Dorsey has come out as against free speech.
Compared to where Twitter was, “South” is an improvement.
Or how bout this one: why not go South, that is where all the blue state businesses are going these days.
Still smoking too much weed, we see, Jack.
Musk reminds me of Buckaroo Banzai. When is he going to start playing in his band and crossover to the 8th dimension?
He correctly figured out that the best way to become richer is to be a cover company for the CIA and FBI.
Every time I see a nose ring, I think, “First pull ring, then THROW.”
LOL! Twitter only started getting cleaned up for the first time after Musk took over. It was an open online sewer when Jack Dorsey was nominally in charge.
With a nose ring, one's "master" could hook up a chain to that nose ring and lead him/her around with it or keep the submissive chained up.
I hate those snot rings
I always want to lead a person out the door with their nose ring when I see one
I took one punk out of a bar with his once. He never came back
Nose rings, ear loop things, studs in the face. All target rich areas.
Jack is a creepy loser.
They seem to have bigger plans.. and perhaps Tucker is part of this.. but Musk’s terms for creators is going to suck them away from all other platforms.. and rapidly if people can figure out how to use Twitter to get sufficient followers. (Free this year, and 8% next.. vs 20% Rumble or 45% Youtube
Rumble has responded..
Rumble Will Provide a 100% Creator Revenue Share for Subscription Badges Till The End of 2023
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rumble-100-creator-revenue-share-132500776.html
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