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Geohot Resigns from Twitter
- playeren 4y agoResigned from Twitter today. Appreciate the opportunity, but didn’t think there was any real impact I could make there. Besides, it was sad to see my GitHub withering. Back to coding! https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz/status/1605341207109939201 https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz/status/160534120710993920...
- subharmonicon 4y agoPreviously submitted with a direct link to the Tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34074344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34074344 [edit] Context: He posted in November saying he would be an intern at Twitter for 12 weeks for the cost of living in California and would come fix Twitter search. Appears to have joined in the last ~3-4 weeks, and is now leaving.
- tibbydudeza 4y agoAnd he "achieved" nothing.
- tibbydudeza 4y agoHis first "fix" - removing the mandatory twitter login screen when not signed in was gone for a few days and then suddenly reappeared. I suspect engagement metric went down and the change was rolled back on orders from above.