As you may have heard, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down. Dorsey is not, it might be said, a popular figure in centre-right circles, given his platform’s relentless censorship of conservatives generally, and former President Trump in particular.
Most notoriously, Dorsey’s company banned any discussion of the Hunter Biden laptop story from Twitter — and even suspended the account of the New York Post, which broke the story. Dorsey later called the decision “a mistake” — long after the US election that it could easily have decided was over.
But before conservatives start popping the champagne, Dorsey is set to be replaced by an apparent anti-white racist.
Twitter’s board of directors named Parag Agrawal CEO and a member of the board, effective immediately. Mr. Agrawal was previously Twitter’s chief technology officer.
Bret Taylor, Salesforce.com Inc. president and chief operating officer, was named chairman of the board.
Twitter shares jumped on the news, rising as much as 11 per cent before they were halted ahead of the announcement. After rising sharply early in the pandemic, Twitter shares have underperformed recently, dropping more than a third over the past six months.
It will indeed be interesting to see how the company fares without its founding CEO. After initial enthusiasm, the company’s stocks nose-dived. Trump derangement slowly revived it, only to see its shares drop again after the 2020 election. Once again, though, events intervened in the company’s favour, as a pandemic-isolated population turned to their screens for something to do. But, post-US lockdowns, its shares have plummeted again. Whether the apparent enthusiasm for Dorsey’s departure is sustained remains to be seen.
Despite its Svengali-like stranglehold over the tiny minds of the mainstream media, Twitter in fact remains a relatively small blob of scum in the social media cesspit.
Twitter use, measured by monetizable daily active usage, was up 13% year-over-year to 211 million in the third quarter, topping the 11% increase in the second quarter. That user base remains a fraction of the size of the other major social-media platforms, including Meta Platforms Inc. ’s Facebook, Alphabet Inc. ’s YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok.
Wall Street Journal
Facebook, for instance, has 1.8 billion daily users, while TikTok is fast closing in on such mind-boggling stats.
Twitter has tried fiddling with its user features, with little apparent success. Its “Fleets” feature — a Snapchat-like feature which allowed users to post material that would disappear after 24 hours — is already heading to the scrap heap.
As for its new CEO…
Republicans have slammed the new Twitter CEO who boasted last year that the company is ‘not bound by the First Amendment’ while a 2010 tweet has today resurfaced in which he appears to call all white people racist.
Daily Mail
As some observers have noted, it doesn’t say much that the company’s new CEO doesn’t appear to know how to scrub his Twitter history.
Unless, of course, he wanted the tweet to be found.
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