Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by dudisbrie » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 1:29 PM UTC

Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account
money.cnn.com

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by paki123 » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 1:42 PM UTC

Brilliant.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by Jedd » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 1:47 PM UTC

  > just setting up my twttr...again
  > (account suspension was an internal mistake)

Did he really just abbreviate his company name ... and no other words?

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by detaro » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 1:48 PM UTC

Jedd wrote: post #3

> just setting up my twttr...again > (account suspension was an internal mistake) Did he really just abbreviate his company name ... and no other words?

throwback to his first tweet: https://twitter.com/jack/status/20

Back then, Twitter was called twttr.

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Post by jbrooksuk » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 1:48 PM UTC

Jedd wrote: post #3

> just setting up my twttr...again > (account suspension was an internal mistake) Did he really just abbreviate his company name ... and no other words?

twttr is what Twitter used to be known as, and Jack's tweet is in reference to https://twitter.com/jack/status/20

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by martin-adams » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #4

Jedd wrote: post #3

> just setting up my twttr...again > (account suspension was an internal mistake) Did he really just abbreviate his company name ... and no other words?

throwback to his first tweet: https://twitter.com/jack/status/20 Back then, Twitter was called twttr.

Not just his first tweet, Twitter's first tweet.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by Pigo » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 2:03 PM UTC

The interview was pretty interesting. Sacca's description of how they make it hard to follow what's going on, even though they know first, sums up why I don't use Twitter. Twitter always feels like I'm walking into the middle of someone else's conversation or inside joke. I rarely have enough context to engage, but people who like to just be loud, or talk to themselves, or don't have a clue can go to town.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

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Post by the_mitsuhiko » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 2:05 PM UTC

Did they restore his followers from a backup or do you keep them through suspension?

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by kintamanimatt » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 2:14 PM UTC

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #8

Did they restore his followers from a backup or do you keep them through suspension?

It's a suspension, not a deletion, which implies it's possible to resume the account. It seems logical that the state of the account would be entirely preserved for later restoration.

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Post by coldpie » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 2:24 PM UTC

Pigo wrote: post #7

The interview was pretty interesting. Sacca's description of how they make it hard to follow what's going on, even though they know first, sums up why I don't use Twitter. Twitter always feels like I'm walking into the middle of someone else's conversation or inside joke. I rarely have enough context to engage, but people who like to just be loud, or talk to themselves, or don't have a clue can go to town. Maybe I'm…

I use Twitter a lot, but mostly only as a content consumption platform. I follow people who make things I like and who say things on Twitter that I enjoy reading. The idea of using it as a conversation platform is insane to me. Sometimes I have trouble fitting a single sentence into a tweet.