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Why Jack Dorsey is ready to save Twitter

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People like Swisher and Sacca are trying cast Dorsey has Jobs 2.0 and they are dead wrong. Jobs was a extreme outlier and there is no pattern matching on that.

I hope they realize that Twitter is a software company. There is very little cost to making changes versus the changes A hardware or hardware/software company would have have to do.

If you think you're a jobs, youre not.

If you think you're a musk, youre not.

Let him make/find his own mold.

He's Jobs 2.0 if we decide he is.

As much as he accomplished and talented as he was, there was nothing magical about the man.

But, admittedly I'm among a very small minority who finds the cultural trend towards people-worshipping tiresome.

So, dare I blaspheme and say such a thing.

It's obvious from his past history that he sees himself as Jobs 2.0. So I'm sure he's working the PR machine hard to see himself cast that way.

Has anyone actually said that?

Investors like founder CEOs. If you listen to his story, Jack has been passionate about coordinating communication for a long time. Passion is a good thing for a company. Simple as that.

meta: This is one of the worst discussions I've ever seen on HN.

There's a 9 letter problem facing Twitter, even beyond monetizing revenue.

Instagram.

EDIT: you can downvote me, but have a look at Google Trends [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=twitter%2C%20instagr...

Me and a lot of people my age hate taking pointless pictures, so Twitter has a secure market there (so long as we are using social media).

Yeah but bunch of Twitter TG wants to take pic on Instagram

Only 3rd party developers will save Twitter.

Has the media has decided for the board? They really must want their Jobs 2.0 story.

> Dorsey supposedly got back to work later at night, but people didn’t know that. So at Square, Dorsey made a point of arriving early and staying late, especially when his employees were grinding away into the evening.

If only there were some way to give a reliable impression of everyone going home at reasonable hours.

Such as: having reasonable working hours and enforcing them.

here is the actual speech in video form. http://t.co/9s6TZNOsJw

I've seen a lot of speeches from Executives, Presidents, Generals. Not really sure this one is that great. Not that it's bad and it's generally well put together, but nothing particularly amazing.

The fact that this is a high water mark for high-tech executive presentations is pretty embarrassing.

He's a hack. Nothing really can be done with Twitter. It's effectively an IRC client. Should never have been a big public company.

You're being very unfair to IRC. IRC is often a fantastic debate platform - Twitter is not.

Really tired of people who work in tech acting like the way they use technology is the only way people use technology.

Are you replying to the wrong comment? What you just said is strictly irrelevant to my reply to GP.

And if you're not, whatever your point is, there's actual reasons why Twitter is not a good debate platform. Kinda like there's actual reasons why an oven is not a good place to store money. Biggest one, the 140 character limit encourages "clickbaity" arguments and lossy compression of information.

Twitter is a one-to-many platform. It's nothing like IRC as most people use it. If you want to make a comparison it should be to a mailing list.

Twitter is somewhere in the middle of both. It's async, skewed towards realtime, topic-centered multi-user conversation. It's an unintuitive but valid comparison tbh.

What do you define as "one to many" anyway? All conversation is one-to-many unless you are actually aggregating what people are saying before presenting it somehow.

It's Slack, just as a public forum and a lower barrier entry to use.

You just described IRC.

IRC is nowhere as pleasant and easy to use as Slack, hence its takeoff.

Fuck you Jack Dorsey, I'll take the Bay Bridge over your cutesy picture-postcard tourist-trap any day of the week. I mean, have you even visited its Wikipedia page? Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_.... The Bay Bridge has three segments, each with very different designs and constraints. It bridges waters twice as deep, and is five times as long as its contemporary. It transformed the economy of the bay area and played a key but unanticipated part in San Francisco's economic ascendancy over Oakland. It has an island in the middle of it. It's a damn marvel. You just need to be, like, a real engineer to appreciate its inner beauty because your eyes aren't wide-angle enough to take it all in at a glance. So, Steve Jobs wannabe, stick to your pixels. Pedestrian? You don't know what you're talking about.

> Fuck you Jack Dorsey > So, Steve Jobs wannabe, stick to your pixels. You don't know what you're talking about.

This attitude turned an eloquent message about how great the Bay Bridge is into a negative downvote-worthy comment. It doesn't add anything to the message.

Why so much hate? Do you know him personally?

That was my reaction at the beginning of the article too (um, in part); I'm not sure exactly how I'd respond to an inspirational speech denigrating the bay bridge, but I wouldn't feel good.

That massive image confused me for a bit. Once I figured out I should scroll down I was annoyed enough to hit the back button.

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