Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's Twitter account
It’s a funny time to be the CEO of a social media site. First Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was "Killed" by his creation (along with a bunch of other users), and yesterday for a short time, Twitter suspended the account of its CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey.
It may not be quite as bad as "killing" its CEO, but Twitter mistakenly suspending the account of the person who helped create it is still hugely embarrassing.
Dorsey’s account was unreachable for a couple of hours.
When he eventually got back on to Twitter, Dorsey explained the problem to his 2.84 million followers with this tweet:
just setting up my twttr…again (account suspension was an internal mistake)
— jack (@jack) November 23, 2016
This is, of course, a nod to his famous first tweet from a decade ago:
just setting up my twttr
— jack (@jack) March 21, 2006
It’s possible that Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, might have been suspended from Google+ at some point too, but it’s unlikely anyone would have noticed (especially as, like everyone else, he doesn’t use it anymore).
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