Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in.<p>For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality.<p>Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can pay to remove some ads. They’re not perfect, but they’ve done much more than anyone else.<p>Beyond all of that, I think Jack was the most trustworthy figure running social media. Not a super high bar, but he was willing to engage with the topic deeply. I think he did Rogan’s podcast twice, the second time shortly after the first because the feedback was that they didn’t engage critically enough. That’s ~6 hours of fairly open conversation, most people stick to 5 minute news segments.
> my one wish for for twitter inc is to become the most transparent company in the world<p>I wish for that too. But their moderation has shown they don’t believe it. It is one of the most opaque and arbitrary processes you can find. If they really want to be transparent (and build a healthy platform) they need to fix that first.
Ona tangentially related matter: Interesting that Parag Agrawal is being named CEO. This makes 3 CEOs (that I know of) that are of Indian descent (other two being Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai).<p>I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.
I'm not a huge fan of some decisions from Jack's administration at Twitter (like killing Vine and their AR projects, or hiding of the cron feed) but I admire his discipline to manage two companies that by their own should be monumental task. Hope him the best, and hoping too twitter doesn't change for worst with this change.
There are some interesting comments in the earlier discussion of the speculation on his resignation here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380171" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380171</a>
Who's going to come on Joe Rogan's podcast and pretend something going to change for the better and not for the worse now? :)<p>I like Jack a lot and wish him all the best.
> Agrawal in November 2020 interview: <i>"Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment... focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed."</i><p>Expect accelerating changes to the “free speech arm of the free speech party”
And Parag Agrawal is the new CEO <a href="https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1465349749607854083" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1465349749607854083</a>
Best of luck to Parag - I'm guessing that investors will be measuring his success based on his ability to monetize Twitter in a way that Jack wasn't able to (not a dig at Jack, I recognize that it's an insanely hard problem to solve). For better or for worse it seems like Twitter has become a key part of our society, and I'm curious to see what ideas they come up with in the next few years