Twitter boss Jack Dorsey is selling his first tweet at auction, with bidding Saturday reaching $2 million in a sign of the appetite for virtual objects authenticated through blockchain technology. “just setting up my twttr,” Dorsey tweeted on March 21, 2006. On Friday he posted a link to “Valuables @Cent,” an online marketplace for tweets […]
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and mobile payments company Square has said that he is moving to Africa for at least three months next year. He stated this after winding up his trip in Ethiopia this week, as part of a month-long tour across the continent. He tweeted that would be meeting with entrepreneurs in […]
Twitter founder and CEO has announced that all paid political advertisements will be banned from the platform as soon as next month. Announcing this, Twitter founder and CEO took the declaration to his social media. We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, […]
Yesterday afternoon Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account was hacked by a group that calls itself the Chuckle Squad. Chuckle Squad Used Jack’s account to tweet racial slurs, antisemitic messages and at least one catastrophic denial from Dorsey’s account. Some offensive tweets were up for about 10 minutes, though not long after the hack began, […]
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