Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down as chief executive officer,with the board appointing chief technology officer Parag Agrawal as his successor.
The Twitter boss has not directly responded to Prince Harry,but has since posted a screenshot of his full inbox notification.
The $39 billion takeover of Afterpay has passed a key hurdle,after shareholders in the acquiring company Square approved a plan to issue more stock for the deal.
Afterpay has had its fair share of doubters and true believers. Now the local market will need to get its head around Square,the payments behemoth started by Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey,
Square’s $39 billion acquisition of BNPL darling Afterpay has been hailed as the clearest sign of the Australian technology sector firing on all cylinders.
The biggest corporate takeover deal in Australian history will turn a host of key staff members and early investors in Melbourne headquartered Afterpay into instant multi-millionaires.
The timing of Afterpay founders Anthony Eisen and Nick Molnar might have been marginally off but with an onslaught looming,their decision to sell their juggernaut makes a lot of sense.
The tweet – “just setting up my twttr” – was Dorsey’s first tweet,made on March 21,2006.
Jack Dorsey was working remotely on a private island in French Polynesia when a Twitter executive phoned to reveal the decision to lock down President Trump's account.
More regulation is coming for social media,but users are pushing the real agenda. Media savvy friends are becoming reluctant users of platforms and taking them off their phones.
Social media critics on both sides are united in their call for consistency and clear standards for free speech.