Published 09:14 IST, August 26th 2022
Jack Dorsey says his 'biggest issue and regret' is Twitter became a company
Jack Dorsey, who stepped down as Twitter CEO, has again created a buzz as he lamented that the social media platform became a 'company'.
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Nearly ten months after co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, stepped down as its CEO, he has again created a buzz as he stated it's his "biggest regret" that social media platform became a company. latest furious statement from Dorsey came after a microblogging site user asked wher Twitter turned out way he h envisioned. In a reply, he said, " biggest issue and my biggest regret is that it became a company." According to Dorsey, he wished microblogging site would operate much like an email platform and ded it should not be controlled by one "centralised entity". Furr, Dorsey said he intended that people would use it as different email providers or as a platform for communication.
Dorsey, who was one of best-known ‘co-founders’ of microblogging site, has h a turbulent tenure while holding top position of company. He was also firm's first CEO, who h stepped down in 2008. Later in 2015, he returned as CEO and continued till November last year. Subsequently, an Indian national, Parag Agrawal, took charge of company. However, he has been battling as social media platform embroiled in multiple struggles. company furr landed in trouble after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk contended to buy platform for a whopping $44 billion in April this year. After a lot of speculations and uncertainties, he finally abandoned deal, citing an enormous number of fake accounts on social media platform last month.
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Elon Musk pulls out of $44bn deal to buy Twitter
Earlier in June, Twitter reportedly agreed to share its full information on spam "bots accounts"-- automated accounts that typically promote scams and misinformation. However, world's richest man contended with data and walked away from deal. As per Twitter, it has around 229 million accounts, of which, around 5% are fake or bots. But Tesla CEO has disputed that 20% or more are bogus, without contending any evidence. On several occasions, Musk was vocal about fake accounts on Twitter, but several tech pundits claimed it was just an attempt to reach final deal at a much lesser amount or even to walk away entirely.
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09:14 IST, August 26th 2022