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Comment by tonetheman | Hacker News Reader

Either that or he has something to do with the possible upcoming sale/buy of twitter?

I'm tempted to speculate in this direction, too, although we don't really know anything yet. If he's connected with any investor group, portfolio company, etc. that might be looking at doing something with Twitter, it's easier if he drops out of lots of random conversations now, rather than having to engage or ignore any further stuff that's pointed his way.

This is my guess. He probably knows a sale is happening and doesn't want to provide value to the new owner. Probably because he has a competitive portfolio company or something.

That sounds petty and spiteful in a way I wouldn't expect from him, especially so publicly.

Also, as valuable as his presence is, I can't imagine a buyer of the size needed to buy Twitter would be like "we'll give you n Billion, but only if pmarca stays on point"

Perhaps Facebook is interested and Marc decided to stop tweeting to avoid conflicts?

Not sure why he would delete the (public) history, though.

> That sounds petty and spiteful in a way I wouldn't expect from him, especially so publicly.

He was pretty notorious for blocking anyone with an opposing viewpoint on Twitter, so this seems in line with that.

More likely because he might be involved in a company that would have a quiet period related to a potential sale

This is nonsense.

Could a buyer get access to his direct messages?

This could be a legitimate concern of his. But I would guess that even if he were to delete everything, Twitter would still have permanently archived undeleted copies (Facebook does that apparently).

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