Manton and Daniel talk about Twitter’s massive security breach, and scrutinize CEO Jack Dorsey’s public image in the wake of it. Daniel wonders whether Twitter’s idealistic employees could be more empowered by another leader, while Manton points out that in any case they are not. Finally, they catch each other up with progress reports on MarsEdit and Micro.blog feature enhancements.
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Links:
- I’ll Leave You With This – Manton’s 2012 tweet announcing his departure from Twitter.
- @mantonsblog – A sporadically updated Twitter mirror of Manton’s blog.
- Twitter’s Massive Attack – Story on The Verge about the Bitcoin-based Twitter scam perpetrated by hijacking popular accounts.
- Jack Dorsey – CEO of Twitter.
- Square – Jack Dorsey’s other company.
- Spying for Saudi Arabia – Washington Post article about allegations that a Twitter employee was a spy.
- A Zillion Times Easier – Brent Simmons on the security dangers of centralized systems such as Twitter.
- Abruptly Deactivated – TechCrunch story about the Twitter employee who deactivated Donald Trump’s account in 2017.
- MarsEdit 4.4 beta for Micro.blog – Download page for MarsEdit pre-releases with enhanced Micro.blog support.
