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What Next TBD: Did @jack Ruin Twitter?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On Monday, Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter. It’s not the first time he’s left the job. Is this really the end for the man who guided Twitter through the Trump era? And how will the platform change without him at the helm? Guest: Nick Bilton, special correspondent at Vanity Fair Host: Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

1:08.1

only one person I wanted to talk to. How long have we been writing about Twitter?

1:12.8

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

1:17.9

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

1:23.5

It's journalist Nick built in. Nick writes for Vanity Fair now. But back in 2006, he was

1:29.2

working at the New York Times in a division of the company that researched how new technologies

1:34.3

might affect journalism. And I had heard about Twitter in 2006 and

1:39.4

reached out to the guys who had started at the time there was no one using it. And the

1:44.7

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

1:50.6

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

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