Taylor Swift and rumored beau Matty Healy pictured for the FIRST TIME TOGETHER as they arrive to her apartment Let them shine! Take That, Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, Nicole Scherzinger, Olly Murs and Steve Winwood all party with 20,000 fans at Windsor Castle The 46-year-old, born in St Louis, Missouri, founded Twitter in 2006 along with co-founders Biz Stone, Noah Glass and Evan Williams.Īfter popularity consistently increased, the app went public in 2013. 'I think it's worth both trying to move Twitter in a better direction and doing something new that's decentralized,' he said.ĭorsey left his post as CEO of Twitter in 2021, and named former chief technology officer Parag Agrawal the new CEO. When Musk asked him what the new model should look like, Dorsey responded that Twitter 'should never have been the company' and that was the 'original sin'. In court filings, Dorsey was revealed to have contacted Musk and discussed the direction of the company. I don't expect that to be mutual in this moment.or ever…and I understand.' He addressed the ill-wishes in a subsequent tweet: 'I am grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked on Twitter. This means he will be one of Twitter's biggest investors in the company, and contributed roughly $1billion to Musk's $44billion purchase.ĭorsey has faced backlash for his decision to abandon Twitter to work on his payments company Block, formerly known as Square. His shares equal approximately a 2.4 percent stake in the company. The co-founder rolled over his 18 million shares into the Elon Musk era of the company rather than taking a payout. In what was his first tweet addressing the takeover, Dorsey said he was sorry for growing the company 'too quickly' and declared that Twitter employees 'always find a way no matter how difficult the moment'. The social media firm was now 'roughly breaking even', Musk said in a recent Twitter Spaces interview.īut after Twitter had made 3,700 of the company's approximated 7,500 employees redundant in November, Dorsey apologized to current and ex-staff. The entrepreneur has also shrunk the employee-base by about 80 percent since his acquisition.
Musk has since returned blue ticks to accounts with more than one million followers - confusing celebrities across the world. 'The payment systems being used for that proof exclude millions if not billions of people.' 'Payment as proof of human is a trap and I'm not aligned with that at all,' he wrote.
The company has rolled out its Twitter-verified blue tick as a paid service, a move Dorsey also slammed on Bluesky. Musk has since implemented widespread changes to boost revenue at Twitter after the social media platform saw advertising income drop last year in the run up to his takeover. Dorsey said it 'all went south' for Musk after he bought the social media giant
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