social media glitches have embarrassed two of the world’s premier social networks lately. Hot on the heels of Facebook briefly pronouncing its founder as dead, so today Dorsey — the visionary behind Twitter’s inception and driving force for its development — was suspended from the service he helped create for hours.
Former TechCrunch’er Drew Olanoff was among those to notice that @jack was no longer reachable:
So the CEO of Twitter is suspended. On Twitter. pic.twitter.com/XCC2MP4EDJ— drew olanoff(@yoda) November 23, 2016
Twitter recently dropped the hammer and suspended a number of ‘alt-right’ figures from using its service, and it appears that its own CEO was locked out for around two to three hours. Dorsey reprised his famous first tweet with a message explaining that there had been an “internal mistake”:
just setting up my twttr…again (account suspension was an internal mistake)—jack (@jack) November 23, 2016
We’ve contacted Twitter for more details, but let’s hope whoever made the “mistake” is on the end of some Thanksgiving-inspired forgiveness and not looking for a new job. For those who believe Twitter could do a much better job managing abuse and protecting its users, even after 10 years online and much-needed recent reforms, this story is a fairly apt piece of symbolism.
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