I resigned from Twitter(twitter.com)
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I resigned from Twitter
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720
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I'm not a huge fan of some decisions from Jack's administration at Twitter (like killing Vine and their AR projects, or hiding of the cron feed) but I admire his discipline to manage two companies that by their own should be monumental task. Hope him the best, and hoping too twitter doesn't change for worst with this change.
There are some interesting comments in the earlier discussion of the speculation on his resignation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380171
...that was fast
Who's going to come on Joe Rogan's podcast and pretend something going to change for the better and not for the worse now? :)
I like Jack a lot and wish him all the best.
I like Jack a lot and wish him all the best.
And Parag Agrawal is the new CEO https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1465349749607854083
> my one wish for for twitter inc is to become the most transparent company in the world
I wish for that too. But their moderation has shown they don’t believe it. It is one of the most opaque and arbitrary processes you can find. If they really want to be transparent (and build a healthy platform) they need to fix that first.
I wish for that too. But their moderation has shown they don’t believe it. It is one of the most opaque and arbitrary processes you can find. If they really want to be transparent (and build a healthy platform) they need to fix that first.
Hope Twitter adds API to search/delete bookmarks finally.
bet that tweet will turn into an NFT.
Context, Twitter stock is flat from 2014/2015 to present and Square is growing rapidly
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Best of luck to Parag - I'm guessing that investors will be measuring his success based on his ability to monetize Twitter in a way that Jack wasn't able to (not a dig at Jack, I recognize that it's an insanely hard problem to solve). For better or for worse it seems like Twitter has become a key part of our society, and I'm curious to see what ideas they come up with in the next few years
Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in.
For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality.
Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can pay to remove some ads. They’re not perfect, but they’ve done much more than anyone else.
Beyond all of that, I think Jack was the most trustworthy figure running social media. Not a super high bar, but he was willing to engage with the topic deeply. I think he did Rogan’s podcast twice, the second time shortly after the first because the feedback was that they didn’t engage critically enough. That’s ~6 hours of fairly open conversation, most people stick to 5 minute news segments.
For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality.
Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can pay to remove some ads. They’re not perfect, but they’ve done much more than anyone else.
Beyond all of that, I think Jack was the most trustworthy figure running social media. Not a super high bar, but he was willing to engage with the topic deeply. I think he did Rogan’s podcast twice, the second time shortly after the first because the feedback was that they didn’t engage critically enough. That’s ~6 hours of fairly open conversation, most people stick to 5 minute news segments.
> You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed
It's been pretty persistent in forgetting that I want chronological....
It's been pretty persistent in forgetting that I want chronological....
Although influential, surely Twitter's recent run isn't because of Jack himself, but the new culture he instigated? Him leaving doesn't change the dynamic there now, just another person who's been influential in the process signing off on the big ticket things.
That's a good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
> they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing
None of them are products people actually want. They're killing them off as fast as they are launching them.
> You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed.
You always have been able to, but they have incessantly pushed you to not use it. They used to keep automatically switching you away from the chronological one every few weeks of use. They've stopped doing that but that is such a minimum effort thing I do not want to give them any credit for fixing the thing they broke on purpose.
None of them are products people actually want. They're killing them off as fast as they are launching them.
> You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed.
You always have been able to, but they have incessantly pushed you to not use it. They used to keep automatically switching you away from the chronological one every few weeks of use. They've stopped doing that but that is such a minimum effort thing I do not want to give them any credit for fixing the thing they broke on purpose.
I really like the audio rooms, and use it pretty frequently. I want the decentralized Twitter option they're exploring with "project bluesky".
Decentralised Twitter already exists in the form of ActivityPub. Twitter itself has been at this for two years now and have nothing whatsoever to show for it. They are not serious about it.
It keeps showing me fake notifications that in fact are recent posts from influencers that I don't follow and have no interest in doing so. Or at least it was because I stopped using it.
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Somewhat comically, the stock jumped on this news.
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Love the "Hi mom!" shout out at the end
> Agrawal in November 2020 interview: "Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment... focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed."
Expect accelerating changes to the “free speech arm of the free speech party”
Expect accelerating changes to the “free speech arm of the free speech party”
Ona tangentially related matter: Interesting that Parag Agrawal is being named CEO. This makes 3 CEOs (that I know of) that are of Indian descent (other two being Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai).
I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.
I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.
https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1465353324803211267
> Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India.
The other day I was watching a news video on advancement on battery tech, two seperate companies, both had indian ceo
I guess it just worked out for them, or perhaps we notice them more because they stick out? isn't there like a name for this effect?
> Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India.
The other day I was watching a news video on advancement on battery tech, two seperate companies, both had indian ceo
I guess it just worked out for them, or perhaps we notice them more because they stick out? isn't there like a name for this effect?
apophenia?
Could be just stats - lots of Indians in tech, so completely plausible that more than a few are picked as leaders.
A lot of global brands have or have recently had Indian CEOs as well (Pepsi, MasterCard, etc).
A lot of global brands have or have recently had Indian CEOs as well (Pepsi, MasterCard, etc).