> But: maybe? Presumably a Twitter under Disney would be a very different Twitter today. We might have had to sign over to Disney copyright of all our tweets for 999 years?
You mean like this?
Disney almost bought Twitter in 2016
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jack Dorsey's been pretty active on the podcast scene recently, and I feel it's harder to fake your personality in multiple long form conversations. I never got a hint of arrogance from him. On a side note, why do people love to paint being the CEO of two companies in such a bad light? How is it different to a CEO of a conglomerate having responsibility for multiple divisions?
The answer to your question is simply “envy”.
That's a pretty thoughtless response.
Very few people have the privilege of being an employee with the perks of the CEO, let alone for multiple companies.
In fact, in the white collar world at least, "moonlighting" is definitely frowned upon, and in many places still outright banned.
And that's just the start.
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#23A decision more guaranteed to nuke both brands is hard to think of. As the article says, the hate speech problem is extremely difficult to solve, but Twitter also has all sorts of NSFW, queer, and activist communities that are the exact opposite of Disneyfication.
Yeah there was no way that that union would have worked.
They might as well have contemplated buying Reddit.
Imagine if it became a sanitized family friendly microblogging platform where it was all pure, clean, fun conversation, anything not sparkly clean got knocked off. That would have ensured its death and would have shrunk to maybe 10MM users total.
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#24Google also almost bought Twitter. I guess the year was 2009.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Arrogance.
Jack Dorsey's been pretty active on the podcast scene recently, and I feel it's harder to fake your personality in multiple long form conversations. I never got a hint of arrogance from him. On a side note, why do people love to paint being the CEO of two companies in such a bad light? How is it different to a CEO of a conglomerate having responsibility for multiple divisions?
When you say "never a hint of arrogance" you mean aside from him deciding to run a public company/major social media platform in his spare time? That it'd be fine to give something with 300 million users a half-hearted effort?
Unfortunately my Twitter NDA prevents me from giving details. But happily, I didn't sign the non-disparagement clause, so I don't think I can get in trouble for saying that I am very happy I no longer work at Twitter, and that I'd definitely not return while he was CEO.
I will grant, though, that he's excellent at performing reasonableness. He is particularly good at the humble apology for whatever Twitter's latest failure is, as well as the promise to do better next time. I could even believe he means it. In the moment, anyhow.
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#26A decision more guaranteed to nuke both brands is hard to think of. As the article says, the hate speech problem is extremely difficult to solve, but Twitter also has all sorts of NSFW, queer, and activist communities that are the exact opposite of Disneyfication.
Yeah there was no way that that union would have worked. They might as well have contemplated buying Reddit. Imagine if it became a sanitized family friendly microblogging platform where it was all pure, clean, fun conversation, anything not sparkly clean got knocked off. That would have ensured its death and would have shrunk to maybe 10MM users total.
"Twitter Kids, with content curated by machine learning!" - some ex-YouTube PM
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah there was no way that that union would have worked. They might as well have contemplated buying Reddit. Imagine if it became a sanitized family friendly microblogging platform where it was all pure, clean, fun conversation, anything not sparkly clean got knocked off. That would have ensured its death and would have shrunk to maybe 10MM users total.
"Twitter Kids, with content curated by machine learning!" - some ex-YouTube PM
People like to rip on YouTube for the recent child-protections but there was some dark shit going on, stuff like uploading Peppa Pig videos spliced with NSFL footage. The youths love YouTube, you can't take that lightly.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Twitter Kids, with content curated by machine learning!" - some ex-YouTube PM
People like to rip on YouTube for the recent child-protections but there was some dark shit going on, stuff like uploading Peppa Pig videos spliced with NSFL footage. The youths love YouTube, you can't take that lightly.
Right, and that content was on YouTube Kids. The current "made for kids" policy goes a length toward improving on the situation GP was decrying.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jack Dorsey's been pretty active on the podcast scene recently, and I feel it's harder to fake your personality in multiple long form conversations. I never got a hint of arrogance from him. On a side note, why do people love to paint being the CEO of two companies in such a bad light? How is it different to a CEO of a conglomerate having responsibility for multiple divisions?
When you say "never a hint of arrogance" you mean aside from him deciding to run a public company/major social media platform in his spare time? That it'd be fine to give something with 300 million users a half-hearted effort? Unfortunately my Twitter NDA prevents me from giving details. But happily, I didn't sign the non-disparagement clause, so I don't think I can get in trouble for saying that I am very happy I no…
> That it'd be fine to give something with 300 million users a half-hearted effort?
Is Twitter not free? What does Jack owe anyone? He didn't force you to sign up for anything. He didn't force you to work for him either. I am sympathetic if you were somehow swindled through the hiring process as too many people are, but otherwise, it seems more arrogant to demand that this one man spend his time however you see fit vs. doing whatever he wants. Clearly the way he spends his time is working for him or else he wouldn't be in his position.
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#30TIL Jack Dorsey is on the board of directors at Disney. This on top of being the founder/ceo of both twitter and square. I wonder what his secret is.
Started Twitter, leverage that to promote square.