When the news broke this week, the Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, was stepping down.

There was only one person I wanted to talk to.

How long have we been writing about Twitter?

Oh, well, you're really going to start this off with the existential question of how

I've wasted 16 years of my life writing about social networks.

That's journalist Nick Bilton.

Nick writes for Vanity Fair now.

Back in 2006, he was working at The New York Times in a division of the company that researched

how new technologies might affect journalism.

And I had heard about Twitter in 2006 and reached out to the guys who had started at the time

there was no one using it.

And the people who responded were Jack Dorsey and Bistone and we had a brief call and then

soon after that I became a reporter and started covering the company.

Nick would go on to write a book called Hatching Twitter.

And from the very beginning, his reporting was full of incitory tidbits about what was

happening at the company.

Often that meant drama centered on Jack Dorsey.

Jack Dorsey is co-founder, then CEO, then overthrown a CEO, then CEO again, and now out again.

This is someone who was pushed out of the company numerous times and has spent 16 years

trying to ensure that he could be at the helm of it.

Most recently, that meant pushing back on activist investors who wanted him gone, a battle

that he seemed to win in 2020.

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