BIRD BRAIN
Former-President Donald Trump had a black belt in using Twitter to spread lies and sow division. Normal users would have been banned years ago for breaking Twitter’s rules like Trump did – but the company allowed him to remain on the platform, “citing the public interest (over which [Twitter] has assumed a guardian role),” the New York Times wryly observed in mid-July. That was days after Trump’s Twitter account was finally suspended, after his tweets that are said to have incited violence following the siege of the Capitol on January 6. And the suspension – not only after the horse had left the barn, but after he’d gone into town, met a nice mare, and sired a few mini-me horses – was due in part to hundreds of Twitter employees signing a letter urging the company’s CEO to ban the president... and not after Twitter finally realized that it had been violating its own rules of conduct, egregiously and repeatedly, and decided to do the right thing.
THEWHY: A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006 and has been heading it up – after a first stint as the head of the company ended in 2008 – since 2015. In 2009, Dorsey – who, for his considerable shortcomings as a leader of people and organizations, is a brilliant technologist – co-founded small- business digital-payments company Square, where he’s also CEO. That company went public in 2015... and now is valued at more than double Twitter. Being the CEO of one public company is a big job, and heading up two is (at least) twice the work. Dorsey needs to fit it in between his other pursuits... like his regular ice baths and habit of fasting for 22 hours of the day. When you have a net worth of around $15 billion, you can afford to not give many hoots
Square
24
August 2021
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