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Why Jack Dorsey is ready to save Twitter
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- paragpatelone 11y agoPeople like Swisher and Sacca are trying cast Dorsey has Jobs 2.0 and they are dead wrong. Jobs was a extreme outlier and there is no pattern matching on that. I hope they realize that Twitter is a software company. There is very little cost to making changes versus the changes A hardware or hardware/software company would have have to do.
- samstave 11y agoIf you think you're a jobs, youre not. If you think you're a musk, youre not. Let him make/find his own mold.
- unclebucknasty 11y agoHe's Jobs 2.0 if we decide he is. As much as he accomplished and talented as he was, there was nothing magical about the man. But, admittedly I'm among a very small minority who finds the cultural trend towards people-worshipping tiresome. So, dare I blaspheme and say such a thing.
- ojbyrne 11y agoIt's obvious from his past history that he sees himself as Jobs 2.0. So I'm sure he's working the PR machine hard to see himself cast that way.
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- tcdent 11y agoHas anyone actually said that? Investors like founder CEOs. If you listen to his story, Jack has been passionate about coordinating communication for a long time. Passion is a good thing for a company. Simple as that. meta: This is one of the worst discussions I've ever seen on HN.
- johnpowell 11y agoThat massive image confused me for a bit. Once I figured out I should scroll down I was annoyed enough to hit the back button.
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- jacques_chester 11y ago> Dorsey supposedly got back to work later at night, but people didn’t know that. So at Square, Dorsey made a point of arriving early and staying late, especially when his employees were grinding away into the evening. If only there were some way to give a reliable impression of everyone going home at reasonable hours. Such as: having reasonable working hours and enforcing them.
- akkartik 11y agoFuck you Jack Dorsey, I'll take the Bay Bridge over your cutesy picture-postcard tourist-trap any day of the week. I mean, have you even visited its Wikipedia page? Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_Bay_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_.... The Bay Bridge has three segments, each with very different designs and constraints. It bridges waters twice as deep, and is five times as long as its contemporary. It transformed the economy of the bay area and played a key but unanticipated part in San Francisco's economic ascendancy over Oakland. It has an island in the middle of it. It's a damn marvel. You just need to be, like, a real engineer to appreciate its inner beauty because your eyes aren't wide-angle enough to take it all in at a glance. So, Steve Jobs wannabe, stick to your pixels. Pedestrian? You don't know what you're talking about.
- SeoxyS 11y ago> Fuck you Jack Dorsey > So, Steve Jobs wannabe, stick to your pixels. You don't know what you're talking about. This attitude turned an eloquent message about how great the Bay Bridge is into a negative downvote-worthy comment. It doesn't add anything to the message.
- wslh 11y agoWhy so much hate? Do you know him personally?
- grayclhn 11y agoThat was my reaction at the beginning of the article too (um, in part); I'm not sure exactly how I'd respond to an inspirational speech denigrating the bay bridge, but I wouldn't feel good.
- jaydz 11y agoHas the media has decided for the board? They really must want their Jobs 2.0 story.
- pdq 11y agoThere's a 9 letter problem facing Twitter, even beyond monetizing revenue. Instagram. EDIT: you can downvote me, but have a look at Google Trends [1] [1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=twitter%2C%20instagram&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B5 https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=twitter%2C%20instagr...
- msie 11y agoOnly 3rd party developers will save Twitter.
- cylinder 11y agoHe's a hack. Nothing really can be done with Twitter. It's effectively an IRC client. Should never have been a big public company.
- scrollaway 11y agoYou're being very unfair to IRC. IRC is often a fantastic debate platform - Twitter is not.
- joshkpeterson 11y agoReally tired of people who work in tech acting like the way they use technology is the only way people use technology.
- scrollaway 11y agoAre you replying to the wrong comment? What you just said is strictly irrelevant to my reply to GP. And if you're not, whatever your point is, there's actual reasons why Twitter is not a good debate platform. Kinda like there's actual reasons why an oven is not a good place to store money. Biggest one, the 140 character limit encourages "clickbaity" arguments and lossy compression of information.
- onewaystreet 11y agoTwitter is a one-to-many platform. It's nothing like IRC as most people use it. If you want to make a comparison it should be to a mailing list.
- scrollaway 11y agoTwitter is somewhere in the middle of both. It's async, skewed towards realtime, topic-centered multi-user conversation. It's an unintuitive but valid comparison tbh. What do you define as "one to many" anyway? All conversation is one-to-many unless you are actually aggregating what people are saying before presenting it somehow.
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- socmoth 11y agohere is the actual speech in video form. http://t.co/9s6TZNOsJw http://t.co/9s6TZNOsJw
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoI've seen a lot of speeches from Executives, Presidents, Generals. Not really sure this one is that great. Not that it's bad and it's generally well put together, but nothing particularly amazing. The fact that this is a high water mark for high-tech executive presentations is pretty embarrassing.