“It all went downhill.” Twitter co-founder criticizes Elon Musk’s leadership

aThe words of Dorsey — who initially backed Musk’s purchase of Twitter — appear in a conversation this Sunday with a user of Bluesky, the network he helped create in 2019, when he was still part of Twitter’s management team.

Asked by the user if he thought Musk was the right leader for Twitter, Dorsey replied, “No, and I also don’t think he was right to realize that it was a bad time.” [para a venda]. Nor do I think management should have forced the sale. Dorsey replied, “It all went downhill.”

Just a year ago, when Twitter management agreed to buy Musk — which, after many billionaire hesitations, would take six months to materialize — Dorsey himself applauded Musk’s arrival, but his opinion seems to have changed radically in the past year.

Musk’s arrival led to a chaotic administration that resulted in the loss of advertisers and revenue, the dismissal or voluntary departure of three-quarters of his staff, and as far as users are concerned, the bet on a paid subscription – Twitter Blue, which allows you to edit or delete posts and appear prominently on the platform – which turned out to be a failure. .

Not a week goes by without Musk — who has declined to name a director or director and prefers to run the network himself — announcing a new change: the latest is to allow media outlets, starting in May, to cover articles they post on Twitter. , taking the network share.

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