{"id":7502,"date":"2019-02-13T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/elon-musk-named-as-twitter-boss-favourite\/"},"modified":"2019-02-13T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:39:08","slug":"elon-musk-named-as-twitter-boss-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/elon-musk-named-as-twitter-boss-favourite\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk named as Twitter boss favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/09D1\/production\/_105631520_muskdorsey.gif\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty\/Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Mr Musk (left) is Mr Dorsey&#8217;s favourite, despite some rather controversial tweets<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Elon Musk has been named as Twitter boss Jack Dorsey&#8217;s favourite tweeter in an interview about how to tackle abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The singling out of the Tesla boss has raised eyebrows because Mr Musk&#8217;s tweets have often proved controversial.<\/p>\n<p>One tweet about taking Tesla private saw him lose his job as chairman, while another has led to a defamation case. <\/p>\n<p>In the live-tweeted interview, Mr Dorsey also said that the way the social network had been handling abuse was &#8220;a huge fail&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">&#8216;Twitter rocks&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Mr Dorsey made his comments during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2019\/2\/12\/18222178\/kara-swisher-jack-dorsey-interview-twitter-transcript-karajack\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">90-minute interview with technology news website Recode. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>When asked whom he personally thought was exciting and influential on the platform, he wrote: &#8220;I like how @elonmusk uses Twitter. He&#8217;s focused on solving existential problems and sharing his thinking openly. I respect that a lot and all the ups and downs that come with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk was happy to take the praise, tweeting: &#8220;Thanks Jack. Twitter rocks.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But others were less complimentary. &#8220;While lamenting harassment on Twitter, Dorsey praises Tesla CEO, who is being sued for defamation over a tweet,&#8221; wrote one user.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Mr Musk&#8217;s Twitter controversies include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">He was briefly blocked by Twitter, which suspected his account had been hacked after he tweeted: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-46097853\" class=\"story-body__link\">Wanna buy some Bitcoin?<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">His now infamous tweet, &#8220;Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured,&#8221; led to an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which resulted in him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45696150\" class=\"story-body__link\">stepping down as chairman<\/a> for three years and paying a $20m (\u00a315m) fine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">An attack on a diver involved in rescuing a group of Thai boys from a cave, who was referred to by Mr Musk as a &#8220;pedo guy&#8221; on Twitter, has led to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-46693736\" class=\"story-body__link\">ongoing defamation case<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Difficult to follow<\/h2>\n<p>Twitter has been grappling with a range of issues such as how to crack down on fake accounts, election meddling, fake news and bullying on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Twitter fell 10% this month, with revenue for the first quarter of 2019 expected to be below analyst forecasts. It has also lost users, down to 321 million from 330 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In the Recode interview, Mr Dorsey did not offer any new solutions but admitted that putting the burden on victims to report abuse was not the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what grade he would give himself for &#8220;tech responsibility&#8221;, he replied: &#8220;Myself? C. We&#8217;ve made progress but it has been scattered and not felt enough. And we&#8217;ve put most of the burden on the victims of abuse (that&#8217;s a huge fail).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The public interview was given a dedicated hashtag &#8211; #karajack &#8211; but some attempting to follow it complained it quickly became confusing and difficult to follow, as more people joined in the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>This will not reflect well on Twitter, which has been accused before of not being very user-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dorsey tweeted: &#8220;OK. Definitely not easy to follow the conversation. Exactly why we are doing this. Fixing stuff like this will help, I believe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47225377\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty\/Reuters Image caption Mr Musk (left) is Mr Dorsey&#8217;s favourite, despite some rather controversial tweets Elon Musk has been named as Twitter boss Jack Dorsey&#8217;s favourite tweeter in an interview about how to tackle abuse. The singling out of the Tesla boss has raised eyebrows because Mr Musk&#8217;s tweets have often proved controversial. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}