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by JohnWhigham 1635 days ago
I was heartened (and a little surprised) that Jack Dorsey recently mentioned that the draconian control of the Twitter API was the worst thing Twitter had done [1].

I wasn't, because he didn't do jack shit to change it. We hear this bullshit all the time; big actors sound off about what was wrong at their previous places, but rarely did they do anything to upset the apple cart.
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jrm4 1635 days ago
I'd say (and I think this happens quite often, moreso in politics) it is at least possible you may be overestimating his power to do so, perhaps at least by the time he realized it?

Twitter wasn't his github repo, it was his gazillion dollar company that has to answer to a lot of stakeholders.

(That being said, no reason to not get on them about it.)

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