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I resigned from Twitter

130 points by 0xedb 5y ago

javchz 5y ago
I'm not a huge fan of some decisions from Jack's administration at Twitter (like killing Vine and their AR projects, or hiding of the cron feed) but I admire his discipline to manage two companies that by their own should be monumental task. Hope him the best, and hoping too twitter doesn't change for worst with this change.
garblegarble 5y ago
There are some interesting comments in the earlier discussion of the speculation on his resignation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380171
chasd00 5y ago
...that was fast
aghastnj 5y ago
So... Jack off Twitter?
alexashka 5y ago
Who's going to come on Joe Rogan's podcast and pretend something going to change for the better and not for the worse now? :) I like Jack a lot and wish him all the best.
nnoitra 5y ago
That's a very poorly written email.
anthropodie 5y ago
And Parag Agrawal is the new CEO https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1465349749607854083 https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1465349749607854083
celeritascelery 5y ago
> my one wish for for twitter inc is to become the most transparent company in the world I wish for that too. But their moderation has shown they don’t believe it. It is one of the most opaque and arbitrary processes you can find. If they really want to be transparent (and build a healthy platform) they need to fix that first.
nikivi 5y ago
Hope Twitter adds API to search/delete bookmarks finally.
uwagar 5y ago
bet that tweet will turn into an NFT.
tschellenbach 5y ago
Context, Twitter stock is flat from 2014/2015 to present and Square is growing rapidly
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anotherengineer 5y ago
Best of luck to Parag - I'm guessing that investors will be measuring his success based on his ability to monetize Twitter in a way that Jack wasn't able to (not a dig at Jack, I recognize that it's an insanely hard problem to solve). For better or for worse it seems like Twitter has become a key part of our society, and I'm curious to see what ideas they come up with in the next few years
Marazan 5y ago
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- HuwytNashi084 5y ago
  I think we'll cope without Twitter.
nscalf 5y ago
Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in. For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality. Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can pay to remove some ads. They’re not perfect, but they’ve done much more than anyone else. Beyond all of that, I think Jack was the most trustworthy figure running social media. Not a super high bar, but he was willing to engage with the topic deeply. I think he did Rogan’s podcast twice, the second time shortly after the first because the feedback was that they didn’t engage critically enough. That’s ~6 hours of fairly open conversation, most people stick to 5 minute news segments.
- tehbeard 5y ago
  > You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed It's been pretty persistent in forgetting that I want chronological....
- wastedhours 5y ago
  Although influential, surely Twitter's recent run isn't because of Jack himself, but the new culture he instigated? Him leaving doesn't change the dynamic there now, just another person who's been influential in the process signing off on the big ticket things.
  - nscalf 5y ago
    That's a good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
- user-the-name 5y ago
  > they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing None of them are products people actually want. They're killing them off as fast as they are launching them. > You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You always have been able to, but they have incessantly pushed you to not use it. They used to keep automatically switching you away from the chronological one every few weeks of use. They've stopped doing that but that is such a minimum effort thing I do not want to give them any credit for fixing the thing they broke on purpose.
JumpCrisscross 5y ago
Somewhat comically, the stock jumped on this news.
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myvoiceismypass 5y ago
Love the "Hi mom!" shout out at the end
ed25519FUUU 5y ago
> Agrawal in November 2020 interview: "Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment... focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed." Expect accelerating changes to the “free speech arm of the free speech party”
xtracto 5y ago
Ona tangentially related matter: Interesting that Parag Agrawal is being named CEO. This makes 3 CEOs (that I know of) that are of Indian descent (other two being Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai). I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.
- ryzvonusef 5y ago
  https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1465353324803211267 https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1465353324803211267 > Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. The other day I was watching a news video on advancement on battery tech, two seperate companies, both had indian ceo I guess it just worked out for them, or perhaps we notice them more because they stick out? isn't there like a name for this effect?
  - lobocinza 5y ago
    apophenia?
- r00fus 5y ago
  Could be just stats - lots of Indians in tech, so completely plausible that more than a few are picked as leaders. A lot of global brands have or have recently had Indian CEOs as well (Pepsi, MasterCard, etc).

130 points by 0xedb 5y ago

I'm not a huge fan of some decisions from Jack's administration at Twitter (like killing Vine and their AR projects, or hiding of the cron feed) but I admire his discipline to manage two companies that by their own should be monumental task. Hope him the best, and hoping too twitter doesn't change for worst with this change.

garblegarble 5y ago

There are some interesting comments in the earlier discussion of the speculation on his resignation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380171

chasd00 5y ago

...that was fast

aghastnj 5y ago

So... Jack off Twitter?

alexashka 5y ago

Who's going to come on Joe Rogan's podcast and pretend something going to change for the better and not for the worse now? :) I like Jack a lot and wish him all the best.

nnoitra 5y ago

That's a very poorly written email.

anthropodie 5y ago

And Parag Agrawal is the new CEO https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1465349749607854083 https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1465349749607854083

celeritascelery 5y ago

> my one wish for for twitter inc is to become the most transparent company in the world I wish for that too. But their moderation has shown they don’t believe it. It is one of the most opaque and arbitrary processes you can find. If they really want to be transparent (and build a healthy platform) they need to fix that first.

nikivi 5y ago

Hope Twitter adds API to search/delete bookmarks finally.

uwagar 5y ago

bet that tweet will turn into an NFT.

tschellenbach 5y ago

Context, Twitter stock is flat from 2014/2015 to present and Square is growing rapidly

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anotherengineer 5y ago

Best of luck to Parag - I'm guessing that investors will be measuring his success based on his ability to monetize Twitter in a way that Jack wasn't able to (not a dig at Jack, I recognize that it's an insanely hard problem to solve). For better or for worse it seems like Twitter has become a key part of our society, and I'm curious to see what ideas they come up with in the next few years

Marazan 5y ago

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HuwytNashi084 5y ago
I think we'll cope without Twitter.

nscalf 5y ago

Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in. For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality. Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can pay to remove some ads. They’re not perfect, but they’ve done much more than anyone else. Beyond all of that, I think Jack was the most trustworthy figure running social media. Not a super high bar, but he was willing to engage with the topic deeply. I think he did Rogan’s podcast twice, the second time shortly after the first because the feedback was that they didn’t engage critically enough. That’s ~6 hours of fairly open conversation, most people stick to 5 minute news segments.

tehbeard 5y ago
> You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed It's been pretty persistent in forgetting that I want chronological....
wastedhours 5y ago
Although influential, surely Twitter's recent run isn't because of Jack himself, but the new culture he instigated? Him leaving doesn't change the dynamic there now, just another person who's been influential in the process signing off on the big ticket things.
- nscalf 5y ago
  That's a good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
user-the-name 5y ago
> they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing None of them are products people actually want. They're killing them off as fast as they are launching them. > You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You always have been able to, but they have incessantly pushed you to not use it. They used to keep automatically switching you away from the chronological one every few weeks of use. They've stopped doing that but that is such a minimum effort thing I do not want to give them any credit for fixing the thing they broke on purpose.

JumpCrisscross 5y ago

Somewhat comically, the stock jumped on this news.

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myvoiceismypass 5y ago

Love the "Hi mom!" shout out at the end

ed25519FUUU 5y ago

> Agrawal in November 2020 interview: "Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment... focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed." Expect accelerating changes to the “free speech arm of the free speech party”

xtracto 5y ago

Ona tangentially related matter: Interesting that Parag Agrawal is being named CEO. This makes 3 CEOs (that I know of) that are of Indian descent (other two being Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai). I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.

ryzvonusef 5y ago
https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1465353324803211267 https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1465353324803211267 > Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. The other day I was watching a news video on advancement on battery tech, two seperate companies, both had indian ceo I guess it just worked out for them, or perhaps we notice them more because they stick out? isn't there like a name for this effect?
- lobocinza 5y ago
  apophenia?
r00fus 5y ago
Could be just stats - lots of Indians in tech, so completely plausible that more than a few are picked as leaders. A lot of global brands have or have recently had Indian CEOs as well (Pepsi, MasterCard, etc).