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Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app
Bluesky, the Twitter alternative backed by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, has hit the App Store and more testers are gaining access. Though the app is still only available as an invite-only b
Developer platforms are all about trust, and Twitter lost it
Let this be my personal notice to Twitter developers: The team is gone; the investment has been undone.
Jack Dorsey warns against attacks on Twitter staff and dedicates $1M a year to Signal
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey issued a warning on the social network’s state and prospects, saying it meets none of the standards he hoped to achieve and that harassment of its staff is shortsight
Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin project TBD kills its plan to trademark ‘Web5’
A plan which would see a corporate entity trademark the term “Web5” has been put to rest after much backlash. Late Tuesday night, TBD, the Bitcoin-focused division of Jack Dorsey’s p
Jack Dorsey breaks his silence, owns ‘responsibility for why everyone is in this situation’ at Twitter
Jack Dorsey, who stepped down as Twitter CEO less than one year ago, finally addressed the layoffs that impacted approximately 50% of the company he co-founded in 2006. The workforce reduction, led by
Elon Musk taps the Twitter whistleblower for help getting out of the deal
With the Twitter trial date rapidly approaching, Elon Musk’s legal team sent a subpoena to former Twitter head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who filed a whistleblower complaint a
Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all
Jack Dorsey might be out of the picture at Twitter these days, but he’s still waxing philosophical about the company. In a reply to a tweet asking about his biggest regrets (paired with, sigh, a
Twitter whistleblower says platform was unable to guard against insider threats on January 6
Among the many damning allegations in the newly released Twitter whistleblower complaint, is the disquieting revelation that Twitter was unable to seal its production environment to guard against any
Elon Musk subpoenas former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Elon Musk’s legal team has subpoenaed former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, marking the latest development in the legal battle over Musk’s attempt to break his $44 billion acquisition agreement
Instagram’s Dual camera feature copies BeReal, but misses the point
We know the drill: Snapchat adds the Stories feature, Instagram nabs it. TikTok gets too popular, Instagram pivots to short-form video. Now, here’s another one for the list. This week, Instagram
Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team
Twitter laid off 30% of its talent acquisition team today, two months into a companywide hiring freeze. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed these layoffs but declined to share the exact number of employe
Down bad
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As crypto selloff accelerates, how much worse can things get?
The crypto markets buckled this week as fears of cascading failures of key blockchain finance players showed just how fragile things are for the asset class, which dipped below a $1 trillion total mar
Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey launched a Bitcoin academy in a public housing complex
Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey is teaming up with artist Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) to launch The Bitcoin Academy at Marcy Houses, the public housing complex in Brooklyn, New York where Jay-Z
The week Jack stepped back
Hey all. Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we recap some of the top stories to cross TC’s front page over the last 7 days. The most read story on our site this week was about
Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s time at the company has come to an end. Dorsey stepped down from Twitter’s board of directors Wednesday, a change that’s effective as of the company&
Amid crypto market turmoil, Andreessen Horowitz announces $4.5 billion web3 fund
Despite a gloomy outlook for crypto markets based on the past few weeks of token turbulence, venture capitalists looking to spend their way into a web3 future aren’t taking their foot off of the
Top Twitter execs, including heads of revenue and consumer products, are out following Musk deal
Twitter GM of Consumer, Keyvon Beykpour, announced today he will be leaving the company after seven years. Beykpour first joined the social media platform by way of its acquisition of Periscope, which
Elon Musk says he would reverse Trump’s lifetime Twitter ban
Twitter’s future owner weighed in on the social network’s biggest question Tuesday, leaving little room for doubt that if Elon Musk has his way, the platform’s doors will be wide ope
Judge tosses Trump’s lawsuit over his lifetime Twitter ban
A federal judge in California dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter Friday, dimming at least one avenue the former president and prolific tweeter might have used to get back to his pl