Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more SaaS06 Feb 2024 | 21
Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 28
Twitter founder Dorsey beats hasty retweet from the board As shareholders sue the social network amid Elon Musk's takeover scramble Personal Tech26 May 2022 | 13
Don't hate on cryptomining, hate the power stations, say Bitcoin super-fans We're not the ones telling them to burn fossil fuels, top names write in response to probe request Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 111
Jack Dorsey's side hustle – payments outfit Square – acquires buy now pay later darling Afterpay for $29bn Plans to make partial payments for almost anything the new normal Personal Tech02 Aug 2021 | 21
So, where does Silicon Valley stand on S.230? Zuck wants 'industry best practices', Pichai demurs, Dorsey urges more Bluesky thinking House panel to quiz web giant CEOs this week. Expect a degree of deja vu Personal Tech24 Mar 2021 | 15
Twitter sticks a beak in, Clippy-style: Are you sure you want to set your account alight with that flame? No, you still can't edit tweets Bootnotes06 May 2020 | 24
Europe calls for single app to track coronavirus. Meanwhile America pretends it isn’t trying to build one at all Comment Plus, what’s big tech doing to help? Not much it seems, Bill Gates excepted Science09 Apr 2020 | 79
JACK OF ALL TIRADES: Twitter boss loses account to cunning foul-mouthed pranksters Roundup Plus a Cisco bug, dentists bitten by malware, and France takes down a worm Security31 Aug 2019 | 14
Jack in black: 12 years on, Twitter finally makes a profit from its firehose of memes and misery 139 months. How fitting for an originally 140-character blog biz Personal Tech08 Feb 2018 | 19
Twitter to upgrade from micro-blogging to milli-blogging with 280 chars President Trump can now trigger nuclear Armageddon in half the time Bootnotes26 Sep 2017 | 40
Reports: Twitter chainsaw massacre redux on the cards 300 staff to get their 140-character farewell On-Prem25 Oct 2016 | 22
Holy sh*t week forces Twitter top brass to go on ‘retreat’ Time for spiritual, sorry, strategic renewal? On-Prem26 Jan 2016 | 19
Twitter boss ‘personally’ grateful as five Twitter execs walk Jack Dorsey shows importance of being earnest On-Prem25 Jan 2016 | 30
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hands out shares to remaining staffers Now can you be more like Facebook? On-Prem23 Oct 2015 | 13
Twitter reduces BBC hacks to tears with redundancy notice Radio 4 translates Jack Dorsey coder kiss-off mail On-Prem14 Oct 2015 | 66
BLABBERGEDDON BEGINS! Twitter lays off 8% of its workforce Micro-blurting site to sinkhole up to $15m in restructuring costs On-Prem13 Oct 2015 | 20
BLABBERGEDDON! Old Twitter chief becomes new Twitter chief to axe staff – report Jack Dorsey to show workers the door, see? On-Prem10 Oct 2015 | 6
Ex-CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey is new CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey Co-founder and former interim CEO of Twitter to be chief of Square as well On-Prem05 Oct 2015 | 5
Record-breaking $502m in sales, BIG LOSSES – OF COURSE IT'S TWITTER Who else, who else could turn half a billion dollars into nothing On-Prem28 Jul 2015 | 15
Only good thing about Twitter CEO storm: 140 character limit gone Big Dick slips out, Jack's off into the hot seat: Chief exec quits SaaS11 Jun 2015 | 16
Twitter probes terror threat: Medieval murder mob ISIS allegedly puts co-founder in crosshairs If you believe an anonymous post on the internet On-Prem02 Mar 2015 | 15
Twitter turns 8: Five tech kingpins whose first tweets are UNBELIEVABLE Unbelievably dull, that is ... like some of our hacks', admittedly On-Prem20 Mar 2014 | 11
Jack Dorsey in IPO talks over payment platform Square - report Twitter co-founder chats to banks about floating ANOTHER profitless firm Twitter co-founder On-Prem07 Nov 2013 | 10
Send dosh (insecurely) via email, Jack Dorsey's Square tells punters TLS can secure financial transactions ... right? Security17 Oct 2013 | 33
Square gets $1bn valuation with $100m investment So hip it has trouble seeing over its pelvis On-Prem29 Jun 2011 | 5