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Not really. Once he had VCs attention he could do what he wanted as he wasn't exactly starting from zero.
I’m sorry but this is ridiculous. You realize Square is a thriving, $31B public company at the time of this comment? Starting a company is one thing. Creating the phenomenon that is Square is quite another.
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You know that Jack Dorsey also founded another successful company in Square, right? Pretty hard to argue that he lucked into both of those things.
I get your point, but seriously, go read Nick Bilton's book about the early history or Twitter. From the time of Odeo to Jack coming back, none of the people in charge of this company or the board had a consistent idea of what they were building, an appropriate roadmap to get there, or how to monetize effectively relative to other social networks. This happened for years . Square is amazing, but a B2B, modern Point-o…
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During the Joe Rogan podcast, he mentioned that what they are trying to attempt to give people the "other side" of the story rather than promoting creation of echo chambers.
"Here we have a climatologist, and for balance, someone who believes the Earth is a computer simulation, and another who is certain it's flat and was created by the Illuminati who are alien lizards."
I’ve opted-out by deleting my account and choosing not to visit the Twitter site. I’ve done the same with Facebook following the same principle. I won’t suggest that my decision had no costs; I miss out on conversations I could learn from and have to be more intentional about reaching out to people in my network. But the costs are far outweighed by the benefits: less frustration, less anxiety, less FOMO.
I highly recommend opting-out to anyone who’s become fed up with the platforms, their conduct or policies, or the way they are made to feel using their products.
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I recently created a Twitter account, mostly as an experiment. I just followed some programmers, stuck to programming content. Immediately and every day after, I was constantly being displayed Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Justin Trudeau, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, etc. Not a single politician or voice not on the left. Considering how powerful Twitter has become, this is troubling. I know this is just one…
Programmers are usually very vocal leftists. I've always assumed that those who don't speak openly about politics don't care or are right wingers, but who knows.
It generalizes.
Sounds like Twitter is taking a page from Google and not knowing when to leave well enough alone.
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What I really dislike is the spam in the notifications section. If someone likes my tweet, replies to it or retweets it, that's relevant. I don't however want to see a notification for something Tweeter deems interesting under other people you follow liked/retweed this as a notification.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I actually really like this feature. I'm usually not able to get to everything, so it's great to know when something important or interesting got tweeted and I know to check it out. That notification was actually what slowly made me an active Twitter user, because they kept surfacing me interesting content and giving me a reason to come back and it became a gateway for me to discove…
I like HN. But I never look at particular users' posts. I just look at the front page, or sometimes at the comments list, so see what people are talking about.
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Twitter is a great example of fairly talentless people with large egos somehow finding success, and mistakenly thinking it is due to their merits. If Dorsey was going to make a good social network, it would have happened 5-8 years ago. It’s a lot like Etsy - someone had drive, funding and concepts to make a project at the right time. However, they were not actually good at running a business and had no idea what the…
You know that Jack Dorsey also founded another successful company in Square, right? Pretty hard to argue that he lucked into both of those things.
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Not really. Once he had VCs attention he could do what he wanted as he wasn't exactly starting from zero.
Let me get this straight: You think that the hard part of creating a billion dollar company is getting attention from VCs?