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What’s In A Name? It Started Jack Dorsey-Elon Musk Argument On Twitter

Kairi 2 years ago 2 min read

Twitter co-founder and its former CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday took on Elon Musk over the social media platform’s new functions and imaginative and prescient for the future. Musk had tweeted in advance that Twitter desires to turn out to be the maximum correct supply of statistics approximately the world. “Twitter desires to turn out to be via way of means of a long way the maximum correct supply of statistics approximately the world. That’s our mission,” Musk tweeted.

“Accurate to who? (sic),” Dorsey replied. “As judged with the aid of using the human beings of Twitter through Community Notes (previously Birdwatch),” Musk wrote. “I nevertheless think…Birdwatch is a much higher name. And ‘extra informative’ a much higher goal,” Dorsey responded. Twitter’s Birdwatch software is a collaborative, community-pushed function that provides useful context to tweets and maintain human beings higher informed. After Musk took over Twitter, he renamed this system as “Community Notes”. “Birdwatch offers me the creeps,” Musk tweeted.

“Community notes is the maximum dull Facebook call ever,” Dorsey shot back. Musk’s reaction advised infighting at Twitter. “Not the whole thing desires to have ‘chook’ withinside the call! Too many chook agencies combating every internally different at Twitter. Angry Birds,” Musk wrote. Dorsey had on Saturday apologised to Twitter’s employees, an afternoon after the organization laid off almost 50 in line with cent of its team of workers as new proprietor Musk keeps his competitive revamp of the social media platform. “Folks at Twitter beyond and gift are robust and resilient. They will continually discover a manner irrespective of how hard the moment. I realise many are indignant with me. I personal the duty for why anybody is on this situation: I grew the organization length too quickly. I make an apology for that,” Mr Dorsey tweeted. “I am thankful for, and love, anybody who has ever labored on Twitter. I do not assume that to be mutual on this moment…or ever…and I understand,” he added. Twitter laid off near 3,seven-hundred human beings on Friday.