Twitter's Founder Again Left, Sayonara Jack Dorsey!

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, resigned but is still with the company. (photo: Techpoint Africa)

JAKARTA - Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, has surprisingly left the social media platform he co-founded 16 years ago.

Dorsey announced the news on Twitter. Instead, he appointed Twitter's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Parag Agrawal, and it's unlikely he will accept another role on Twitter.

"I decided to leave Twitter because I believed the company was ready to move on from its founder," Dorsey said.

In his official statement, Dorsey explained that while he will remain on the company's board until the appointed time to help Agrawal through the transition to CEO. He would go after him to make sure the company could stand on its own, independent of its founder. influence or direction.

not sure anyone has heard but,I resigned from Twitter pic.twitter.com/G5tUkSSxkl

— jack⚡️ (@jack) November 29, 2021

Dorsey is leaving the social media platform that has become one of the most influential discussion spaces on the internet, for better or for worse. Dorsey, who co-founded the social media giant in 2006, served as CEO until 2008 before being removed from the role. He returned to lead Twitter in 2015 after former CEO Dick Costolo stepped down.

Quoting CNBC International, Tuesday, November 30, meanwhile, Agrawal must inherit Twitter which continues to struggle with what will and will not be allowed on the platform. Agrawal, who has served as CTO since 2017, has been with Twitter for more than a decade.

He's in charge of strategies involving artificial intelligence and machine learning and he's leading a project to make tweets on users' timelines more relevant to them.

Previously, Agrawal was also tasked with finding a lead for Project Bluesky, a research project Twitter launched to set open and decentralized standards for social media platforms.

Dorsey recently said Bluesky would help social media companies collaborate on how posts are promoted to users and would give users more control over the content they see.

Bluesky can also make it easier for social networks to impose restrictions on hate speech and other abuse, essentially helping them share the burden at a lower cost.

Elsewhere, the company also stated earlier this year that it aims to have 315 million monetizable daily active users by the end of 2023, and at least double its annual revenue by that year.