Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in.

For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality.

Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can pay to remove some ads. They’re not perfect, but they’ve done much more than anyone else.

Beyond all of that, I think Jack was the most trustworthy figure running social media. Not a super high bar, but he was willing to engage with the topic deeply. I think he did Rogan’s podcast twice, the second time shortly after the first because the feedback was that they didn’t engage critically enough. That’s ~6 hours of fairly open conversation, most people stick to 5 minute news segments.