Business & Tech As Bluesky Blows Up, So Do the Bots With rapid growth, and without a robust content moderation system, Bluesky is already entering an era of bots and misinformation.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Secret List of Twitter Buyout Investors Made Public; It Includes Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover was largely financed by a secret group of wealthy investors. Those investors’ names are now public, and the list includes Jack Dorsey, Larry Ellison, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Business & Tech SF-Based Square and Cash App Experience Widespread Outages, Leading to Widespread Headaches If you were trying to pay for something with Square or Cash App today and had a problem, you're not alone. Square, and its Cash App, both apps were experiencing major issues Thursday.
Business & Tech A Year Later and After Launching Open-Source Twitter Alternative, Jack Dorsey Says Elon Musk's Takeover Was a Mistake Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has changed his tune quite a bit since this time last year, when he seemed to fully endorse the sale of the company to fellow billionaire Elon Musk.
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey-Founded Payments Platform Block Is Bolting From Its Mid-Market Office Space Another big tech firm is eliminating its mid-Market presence in San Francisco, with digital payment firm Block saying it will not renew its giant lease at 1455 Market.
Business & Tech Crypto Bro War of Words (and Memes) Breaks Out Between Jack Dorsey and Top Silicon Valley VCs There are no good guys, and certainly no women at all, in the latest Silicon Valley high school drama that pits Jack Dorsey and the bigwigs at Andreessen Horowitz arguing over the true meaning of crypto.
Business & Tech Square Is Changing Its Name to 'Block' In a Meta-Esque Move Like Facebook, Square has outgrown its original focus, dealing with payment-processing systems for sellers, and now the company is rebranding as Block, in a nod to its ambitions in the world of blockchain.
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Gives Little Reason A year after an attempted ouster by a major investor, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down from his role at the company, and longtime CTO Parag Agrawal will take the helm in his place.
Arts & Entertainment Guaranteed Income Program for SF Artists Gets Expanded Thanks to $3.5M Gift From Twitter/Square CEO Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey is continuing to do nice things with his wealth, and on Friday we learned that his charitable group #StartSmall is giving $3.46 million to San Francisco's pilot program to give local artists $1,000 per month in guaranteed income.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg and Dorsey Return to Testify Before Congress About Misinformation, Liberal Bias Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were once again taking part in the political theater of a congressional hearing on Tuesday, this time testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Ted Cruz got a chance to yell and Dianne Feinstein got to frown at them both.
Business & Tech Twitter Suspends Trump Campaign Account for Three Hours, as Trump-Twitter Battle Escalates Trump is threatening a “big lawsuit” after his campaign account was given a three-hour timeout on Twitter, and Senate Republicans have subpoena'd Jack Dorsey because they think this is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor.
Business & Tech Twitter Mulls A Paid Subscription Model, As Congress Calls Jack Dorsey In To Testify Fresh off a highly embarrassing data breach, Twitter would like your credit card information — but Congressional Republicans want to grill Jack Dorsey first.
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to Give Laptops to Oakland Schoolkids As part of his ongoing philanthropic effort to distribute $1.5 billion of his own money during the pandemic crisis, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey announced Friday that he's giving $10 million to the Oakland Unified School District to provide laptops and internet access to schoolchildren.
Business & Tech Hackers Seize Jack Dorsey's Twitter, Make Bomb Threats, Praise Hitler Some hackers compromised Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account on Friday and used the platform to make racial slurs, bomb threats, and otherwise be grossly offensive.
SF News Jack Dorsey Splurges On $22 Million Sea Cliff House (Next To His House) In Record-Setting Sale The Twitter and Square co-founder already owns the place next door, and the combined compounds are worth an estimated $31.9 million.
SF News Twitter Apparently Pitched Russian Media Outlet RT On Spending Millions In Ads Last Year Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT revealed in FULL https://t.co/flh9GLg4f0 pic.twitter.com/ZKOntGvTat— RT (@RT_com) October 27, 2017 Pushing back against Twitter, which announced this
SF News Twitter Outlines New Policies To Combat Rampant Harassment, Hate, And Abuse In an e-mail sent to Twitter employees, obtained by the Associated Press, the Trust and Safety team at the beleaguered tech company laid out their plans for combating harassment, hate speech, and abuse
Arts & Entertainment Jack Dorsey Is Sorry Twitter Is So Terrible This year, says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, harassment and abuse was the company's "top priority" and they've "made a lot of progress." This was part of a mini tweet storm Friday that Dorsey
SF News A Majority Of Americans Wish Trump Would Get Off Twitter While President Trump shows no signs of weaning himself off his near daily Twitter habit, six months into office, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans find his tweets inappropriate, insulting,
SF News Bloomberg Is Launching A 24-Hour News Channel On Twitter This Fall Enjoyed sitting down w/@jack today to announce @Bloomberg's new global 24/7 live news network w/@Twitter https://t.co/zEY9jnUHss #TheNewNews pic.twitter.com/wwkoxNQm5b— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) May 1, 2017
SF News Twitter Sues Trump Administration For Ordering It To Unmask Anti-Trump Account In March, Twitter received a US Department of Homeland Security summons asking it to help identify the user or users behind one of the many "ALT" or resistance Twitter accounts that proliferated to
SF News Hackers On Twitter Send Out Swastikas From Major Accounts Like UNICEF, BBC, British Parliament This isn't good, right? pic.twitter.com/nvxWYAutsO— Rob Lopez (@R0BaTO) March 15, 2017 Dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts from the European Parliament, BBC North America, Duke University, and other institutions were briefly
SF News Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Announces 'Completely New Approach To Abuse' The fatigued and much abused Twitter faithful are taking with a grain of salt Monday's announcement from CEO Jack Dorsey that the company is "taking a completely new approach to abuse" and that
SF News Twitter Admits To Spamming A Half Million Users With Trump's First @POTUS Tweet It was indeed a snafu on Twitter's end on Friday when a large number of people who did not follow the @POTUS account nonetheless were treated to President Trump's first tweet from that
SF News Trump Won't Use @POTUS Twitter Handle, Will Use Current Account To Keep Whining About SNL For Four Years When he assumes the presidency in less than a week, will Donald Trump make the final transition to power, setting aside his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account and his penchant for petty feuds to adopt
