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I don’t even think it is arguable. Square and CashApp are significantly more profitable than Twitter, I believe.

You're right! Totally forgot about Square. Though I still maintain he is known for Twitter.

He was on the original Blogger team, too. It was pretty successful until Google bought it and left it to die on the vine, as they usually do.

I think it’s Evan Williams (the other Twitter co-founder) who was on the Blogger team, not Dorsey.

Williams was, for sure, but according to Wikipedia Dorsey was, in fact, a programmer for Pyra Labs (the creators of Blogger).

Hey, they recently redid the user interface for it!

I mean, yeah, the new interface is unusable with anything under a Xeon workstation, and it's very mobile editing focused, for a blogging platform, and it drove me and a variety of other people off Blogger entirely, but... they've not just left it alone. That would have been an improvement over what they did to it.

My extensive thoughts on their "improvements" here: https://www.sevarg.net/2020/10/10/end-of-blog-new-blogger-in...

Which is now a Jekyll based blog, hosted on my own hardware.

Clearly this person didn't want to do even a simple google search before commenting.