@jack exits Twitter
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What next for the social media platform after Jack Dorsey quits? the BBC's tech reporter in Silicon Valley James Clayton tells us why Jack Dorsey has left as CEO, and the challenges facing Twitter under new boss Parag Agrawal. Plus Jane Wakefield speaks to an Afghan student turning to the Internet to continue her education under Taliban rule, and we hear from the company forging ahead with plans to deliver Internet networks with balloons, despite Google's abandoning of the project. With BBC tech reporter Shiona McCallum.
(Photo: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students during at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi. Credit: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)
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| 0:35.0 | I'm Jane Wakefield, and delving into the global world of tech with me this |
| 0:39.0 | week is BBC tech reporter Shona McCallum. Hi Shona. Oh hi Jane. Today we're looking at the shock |
| 0:45.4 | announcement that one of Twitter's founders Jack Dorsey is standing aside. What does that mean for |
| 0:50.5 | the social media site going forward? And we also hear from an Afghan woman who is |
| 0:55.5 | studying in secret via an online university. Plus balloons to power the internet in Africa seemed like |
| 1:01.8 | such a mad idea that Google called it Project Loon. That project is dead, but the idea is being |
| 1:07.5 | floated again by a new firm. I apologise in advance for the balloon puns. |
| 1:12.5 | Shona, what else are we looking at today? The American lawmakers questioning cryptocurrency |
| 1:17.1 | executives. And are you on TikTok? Well, we'll talk about the new ways the platform is |
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