Breaking up tech giants should be a measure of last resort, the European Union’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has suggested. “To break up a company, to break up private property would be very far reaching and you would need to have a very strong case that it would produce better results for consumers in the […]
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This Twitter interview with CEO Jack proves the platform is very confusing
It was supposed to be fun.
It was supposed to be an “experiment.”
Instead, it was a stinking mess.
Last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey proposed that ReCode’s Kara Swisher interview him entirely over Twitter. The unlikely pair carried out the plan Tuesday.
Dorsey positioned the idea as a novel test of Twitter’s conversational features, which was odd to anyone who has ever held any sort of Q&A over Twitter. That’s, well, a lot of peopleWhy would the CEO need to test this out in so public a fashion?
I’ve never done this before. But it might be a feature we want to build so everyone can do it! So we get to test and learn in public.
— jack (@jack) February 8, 2019 Read more…
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View More This Twitter interview with CEO Jack proves the platform is very confusingTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey gives himself a ‘C’ in ‘tech responsibility’
Ah, the passing “C.” Also known as the white man’s “A.”
In a live interview conducted on Twitter, ReCode’s Kara Swisher pressed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about what grade Dorsey would give his company and himself at fulfilling “tech responsibility.”
Dorsey replied with the oh-so-humble C. In other words, he knows he could do better, but he’s really trying, guys! So he totally deserves to keep his job.
Myself? C. We’ve made progress, but it has been scattered and not felt enough. Changing the experience hasn’t been meaningful enough. And we’ve put most of the burden on the victims of abuse (that’s a huge fail)#Karajack
— jack (@jack) February 12, 2019 Read more…
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