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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by ralfd »

hartator wrote: post #779
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #748

A few reflections on this announcement. 1) Remember that CEOs of public companies are essentially unable to say what they think or want. The cost of doing it is being sued for damages, having to spend countless hours with lawyers, etc. Jack might think X, but he's only allowed to say Y, and he doesn't want to go beyond that because he doesn't want to fight that fight. Only people in a close circle really know what's…

> Remember that CEOs of public companies are essentially unable to say what they think or want. Elon Musk seems pretty free. He just pays the fines time to time.

Yes. I guess Musk is the exception proving the rule.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by Aeolun »

bad_username wrote: post #764
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #748

A few reflections on this announcement. 1) Remember that CEOs of public companies are essentially unable to say what they think or want. The cost of doing it is being sued for damages, having to spend countless hours with lawyers, etc. Jack might think X, but he's only allowed to say Y, and he doesn't want to go beyond that because he doesn't want to fight that fight. Only people in a close circle really know what's…

> it has essentially enabled an incredible explosion of "voices" that can be heard Very controlled, curated, and politically corrected explosion. "Very lively debate within allowed spectrum".

What exactly would you like to discuss on Twitter? I’ve never felt censored there regardless of what my opinion was.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by madeofpalk »

whyrusleeping wrote: post #719
blocked_again wrote: post #682

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> FWIW, you've also championed transparency and decentralization for your platform more than any other SV social media titan Twitter don't even have an RSS feed let alone championing decentralisation.

I assume you havent seen https://twitter.com/bluesky ?

Software ships.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by breakfastduck »

mjamil wrote: post #608

I'm in a post-Thanksgiving charitable mood, so thank you, Jack. The execution hasn't been perfect (as has been commented on ad nauseam), but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker's Corner [2] I know of, and that - despite all the completely valid criticism - is a valuable public service: mediating access to information has been the defining tool of control for those in power pretty much since c…

> but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker's Corner [2]

More like the closest to a worldwide-accessible bar fight. It's been nothing but a truly destructive force.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by standardly »

riffic wrote: post #720
blocked_again wrote: post #682

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> FWIW, you've also championed transparency and decentralization for your platform more than any other SV social media titan Twitter don't even have an RSS feed let alone championing decentralisation.

http://cdevroe.com/2021/10/26/bluesky-status/ love this bit: "The truth is that Twitter could become decentralized almost overnight by simply adding some JSON-LD serializers, an inbox endpoint and maybe tweaking their storage schema slightly to become part of the fediverse – anyone who wouldn’t want to use twitter.com could follow twitter.com users from their own server and so on. That does not require 2 years of mak…

Did anyone tell them? Maybe they just didn't know how

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by Ekaros »

jon_richards wrote: post #270
joering2 wrote: post #168

Am I the only one found it ironic he is announcing this on twitter.. yet he has to screen shot the content b/c it would normally not fit into twitter media :)

It’s especially funny considering how many companies do sentiment analysis of Twitter text for algorithmic trading.

I wonder if they are going to add picture OCR... And how this could be gamed...

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by Negitivefrags »

mike_d wrote: post #703
thaumasiotes wrote: post #690

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Uncharitable explanation: he's being forced out over his pro-free-speech views. He's been pretty vocal about disagreeing with Twitter's recent actions.

That makes no sense. He is the CEO and on the board, he _is_ the decision maker and could reverse any action he disagreed with. Any disagreement was purely theatre.

If you think that the CEO of a company can just do whatever they like then you haven't run a company.

If you attempt to do things that the employees do not want to do then your company will turn to shit. People will leave, and those that remain will have terrible productivity.

Yes, you get some "Just do as I say" points, but you have to choose where to spend them very wisely.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by madeofpalk »

MaximumYComb wrote: post #813
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #748

A few reflections on this announcement. 1) Remember that CEOs of public companies are essentially unable to say what they think or want. The cost of doing it is being sued for damages, having to spend countless hours with lawyers, etc. Jack might think X, but he's only allowed to say Y, and he doesn't want to go beyond that because he doesn't want to fight that fight. Only people in a close circle really know what's…

I lean moderately left and I really disagree with #3. The explosion of voices is only ones that are "allowed". Twitter is one of the biggest offenders of cancel culture (i.e. silencing people).

Compare to before, where the only voices you heard where ones that were allowed by a hand full of media execs.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by Ekaros »

xeromal wrote: post #277
mardifoufs wrote: post #212

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How did dorsey stand up to anything? They are trying to monetize twitter just as much, with extremely annoying dark patterns to boot. They just don't seem to succeed as well. The way they redesigned feeds, made linking to tweets a coin toss because of how often they just show "oops something went wrong" if you aren't logged in, or if you are lucky made it so Twitter threads just don't show anything but the single lin…

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690?lang=en Here's an example off the top of my head. Banning Trump I felt was pretty courageous.

Banning any politicians is exact opposite of being courageous. Now courageous would have been to kick out those who ask for censorship...

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by notyourwork »

kgermino wrote: post #56
notyourwork wrote: post #44

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How would you like it to happen? Twitter schedules a formal press conference to announce it or otherwise?

Form 8-K filed with the SEC concurrently with a Press Release and interviews announcing his successor and explaining why this will be a "good thing." The 8-K is functionally a legal requirement for this and the rest is just making sure you control the message to reduce speculation which can hurt you.

I wasn't sure what was expected to happen, thank you for explaining!
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