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Who is Jack Dorsey

Jack Patrick Dorsey is the 43-year-old American CEO and co-founder of two vastly successful tech companies — Twitter and Square Inc. Since the launch of Twitter in 2006, it has gone on to become a widely known social media website, while Square is a small business payments company, which was founded in 2009 and was opened to the public in 2015.
 
In April 2020, with the onset of coronavirus pandemic across the world, the billionaire pledged to give away $1 billion - nearly 28% of his net worth - to Covid-19 relief, girls' education, and health, and universal basic income. According
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Abandoning Elon Musk's X, users favour Bluesky over Meta's Threads

Once backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky has overtaken Threads in daily active users. Meta's decision to de-emphasise political content has alienated users seeking political discussions

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Updated On : 25 Nov 2024 | 1:21 PM IST

'Character Limit' unveils Musk's expensive Twitter buy and its real impact

Mr Trump (then ex-President) also gets a fair share of attention in the book, particularly about how he used Twitter and other social media to make false claims

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Updated On : 07 Nov 2024 | 11:24 PM IST

Twitter was founded on this day in 2006, here's all you need to know

Jack Dorsey founded Twitter in 2006 with Evan Williams and Biz Stone. It was purchased by Elon Musk in 2023 for $44 billion, who later renamed it X

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Updated On : 15 Jul 2024 | 1:24 PM IST

Jack Dorsey quits X alternative Bluesky, company seeks new board member

Bluesky is a decentralised, text-based, invite-only social network that rose in prominence following Elon Musk's acquisition of X/Twitter

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Updated On : 06 May 2024 | 4:49 PM IST

Hindenburg nabs tiny gains off $173 bn carnage, wipes out $99 bn of wealth

The surprise is that Anderson, 39, who runs tiny Hindenburg Research with a team of roughly a dozen researchers, probably reaped relatively small profits from those fights

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Updated On : 07 Aug 2023 | 10:45 PM IST

A day after Instagram Threads launch, Jack Dorsey calls it 'Twitter clone'

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey also raised concerns about the permissions and data access required by Meta's new app, Threads

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Updated On : 07 Jul 2023 | 12:36 PM IST

Twitter under Dorsey was biased in tackling misinformation: MoS IT

Rajeev Chandrasekhar lauds Karnataka HC dismissal of Twitter plea against govt's orders to block tweets and accounts related to farmers' protests in 2020 and 2021

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Updated On : 30 Jun 2023 | 4:59 PM IST

Twitter's challenge to govt order part of Dorsey's fiction creation: MoS IT

Dorsey, who quit as Twitter CEO, has claimed that Indian govt "pressured" company with threats of a shutdown and raids on employees if it did not comply with requests to take down posts

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Updated On : 30 Jun 2023 | 4:27 PM IST

Oppn MPs to raise Dorsey's 'pressure' remark in parliamentary panel meeting

A parliamentary standing committee is scheduled to meet today under the chairmanship of Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) Lok Sabha MP Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao

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Updated On : 15 Jun 2023 | 11:48 AM IST

Is Dorsey trying to gain relevance in US political season, asks MoS IT

"We neither shut down Twitter or had any other punitive consequences imposed on Twitter. We are a democratic country and live by the rule of law," he added

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Updated On : 14 Jun 2023 | 12:58 PM IST

Chandrasekhar slams Twitter ex-CEO Dorsey's comments on farmer protest

"This is an outright lie by @jack - perhaps an attempt to brush out that very dubious period of Twitters history," said the Minister in his tweet

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Updated On : 13 Jun 2023 | 10:45 PM IST

Jack Dorsey saga: How Elon Musk learnt fast to respect strict Indian laws

Jack Dorsey created a storm by claiming that Indian govt threatened to shut down the platform and conducted raids on its employees

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Updated On : 13 Jun 2023 | 8:37 PM IST

Dorsey wants to cover up, 'Twitter files' exposed misuse: Anurag Thakur

The "false" allegations made by Jack Dorsey were an attempt to cover up past misdeeds and Twitter's internal communications had exposed that platform was "misused'', Anurag Thakur said

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Updated On : 13 Jun 2023 | 6:16 PM IST

Twitter violated laws between 2020-22, during Dorsey's tuenure: BJP IT head

The BJP's IT department head Amit Malviya Tuesday came down heavily on former Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey, saying the social media company was in violation of laws between 2020-2022

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Updated On : 13 Jun 2023 | 4:45 PM IST

Congress demands answers on ex-Twitter CEO's claim of pressure from Centre

The Congress Tuesday demanded answers from the Modi government after ex-Twitter CEO Dorsey claimed platform was threatened it would be shut down unless it complied with orders

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Updated On : 13 Jun 2023 | 1:41 PM IST

Cong hits back at govt over ex-Twitter CEO claims over 'raiding' its office

Congress on Tuesday mounted pressure on the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre over the former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's remarks and asked if the Narendra Modi government will answer

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Updated On : 13 Jun 2023 | 10:24 AM IST

Ex-Twitter CEO Dorsey alleges pressure from India, Centre denies claims

In a tweet, cabinet minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that Dorsey's claim was an 'outright lie'

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Updated On : 13 Jun 2023 | 9:00 AM IST

Twitter rival Bluesky backed by Jack Dorsey crosses 100,000 users

Twitter rival Bluesky, backed by Jack Dorsey, has crossed more than 100,000 users with a total of 3.19 million posts, and is growing steadily

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Updated On : 31 May 2023 | 1:05 PM IST

Carl Icahn's wealth plunges $10 bn on Hindenburg short-seller report

Icahn, 87, is the latest billionaire to be targeted by Hindenburg this year after the New York-based short-seller went after Gautam Adani and Jack Dorsey

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Updated On : 03 May 2023 | 7:03 AM IST

Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Social is a Twitter alternative in the works

Available only through invitation from current users for now, Bluesky aims to give users greater control

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Updated On : 01 May 2023 | 3:05 PM IST