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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces major reorganization
- ksangeelee 5y agoI'd like to see Twitter unwind the recent requirement to have an account simply to read linked tweets and threads. This is such a horribly hostile requirement, Twitter should be ashamed of the mockery they are making of the web.
- systemvoltage 5y agoEspecially when it is a public square. Lots of officials and government agencies to your local fire department uses Twitter to communicate to public exclusively. Unacceptable and despicable. It has unbelievable to me that we are using a for-profit platform for communication between governments and the public they serve. Fuck Twitter.
- riffic 5y ago> Lots of officials and government agencies to your local fire department uses Twitter to communicate to public exclusively. Speak to policy makers directly and demand they publish directly into publicly owned infrastructure. we live in a world where the interoperable social web exists. Gov bodies could shoehorn those protocols into their content management systems and bypass commercial social media directly. no ponzi blockchain necessary either.
- altspace 5y ago> It has unbelievable to me that we are using a for-profit platform for communication between governments and the public they serve The internet is a for-profit platform
- missedthecue 5y agoEvery communication platform is. Radio, internet, TV, even the telegram.
- jerojero 5y agoIsn't the internet, at its core, a set of protocols we've all agreed to use? It's not for or against profit anymore than a hammer is.
- altspace 5y agoYes, but nobody is running servers with those protocols for free
- systemvoltage 5y agoNo one voted for our governments to exclusively use it to communicate on Twitter. It kinda just organically happened. Even Iranian officials use Twitter. We had government websites and official channels, but hard and inaccessible. I think the problem I have is the need for phone numbers and identification to access government comms through Twitter. No one asked who I am to listen to radio (even though some were commercial for-profit ventures). I’d like to see GSA offer a US gov official Twitter of sorts for instant communication. No ID or Phone required, funded by tax payers.
- riffic 5y agoTwitter can even provide GSA the software and managed hosting.
- ivraatiems 5y agoWhat's going on? First Dorsey steps down, then massive new rule/policy changes are unilaterally applied and cause chaos, now a reorganization? Anybody who works at Twitter around to comment on what the heck is happening?
- viro 5y agowhat was the new rule/policy change? I must have missed it.
- ksec 5y agoJack Dorsey Out At Twitter: Did He Quit Or Was He Fired? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/twitter-did-jack-dorsey-quit-or-was-he-fired https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/twitter-did-jack-dor...
- ivraatiems 5y agoAn interesting read - thank you!
- throwaway689452 5y agoMy personal conspiracy theory of all this is as follows. Some interesting events and their timelines: One of the activist investors from Elliot Management who was on the board stepped down in April earlier this year. [0] Separately, Twitter got some bad press earlier this year in August, mainly around Dantley Davis[1]. Dantley Davis is also leaving as per [0] but back in August/September Jack, in the face of the bad press around Twitter and Dantley specifically, stood up and backed Davis. My theory is that the board was trying to replace Dorsey earlier this year, and struck an agreement for him to do so by end of year or early in 2022. Part of that deal included the activist investor from Elliot Management to first step down. In August once the NYTimes story broke about Dantley, the board sought to accelerate the plan. Now we see Dorsey and Dantley leaving - along several other executives. I'm convinced there was a big fight for control over twitter at the board level and that it was a fight that Dorsey lost first in April, and again in August. I'm sure there were several other issues not publicly reported that pushed the board in this direction (poor company performance, outlook, management etc). [0] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/twitter-did-jack-dorsey-quit-or-was-he-fired https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/twitter-did-jack-dor... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/technology/twitter-culture-change-conflict.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/technology/twitter-cultur...
- riffic 5y agoI've been doing a bit of #birdwatching over in the Twitter subreddit. There've been a few notable departures today. Seems interesting.
- varunprasad 5y agoThey've restructured how their divisions are reorganized. You cannot do that without firing some top leaders.