I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here:
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Not true and not illegal.
This was pulled because we got a DMCA complaint from copyright holder.
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Twitter Pulls Trump Campaign Video of President Showing Empathy For Peaceful Protesters davidharrisjr.com/rich/twitter-p They are fighting hard for the Radical Left Democrats. A one sided battle. Illegal. Section 230!
Fact check: there is someone ultimately accountable for our actions as a company, and that’s me. Please leave our employees out of this. We’ll continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections globally. And we will admit to and own any mistakes we make.
Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient. They will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment. I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that.
I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct?
I’m really happy Elon is joining the Twitter board! He cares deeply about our world and Twitter’s role in it.
Parag and Elon both lead with their hearts, and they will be an incredible team.
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I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board! Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.
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In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.
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A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.
Square is considering making a hardware wallet for #bitcoin. If we do it, we would build it entirely in the open, from software to hardware design, and in collaboration with the community. We want to kick off this thinking the right way: by sharing some of our guiding principles.
End the CCP
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Life in Beijing: relentless covid testing & health app that dictates where I go
Green code is needed to enter public areas. Red means quarantine/isolation.
Authorities track people's movements thru these apps. Concern is this surveillance will stay long after covid is gone
@cnn
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Every administration, republican or democrat, has an opportunity to build trust with the public.
Instead, every single time, they choose deception and zero accountability. It’s not the party, it’s the system.
Running Twitter is hard. I don’t wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints they have, which are immense. It’s easy to critique the decisions from afar…which I’m guilty of…but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will.
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Hello World,
Our @NigeriaGov of @MBuhari is killing our young citizens on the street on Lagos now.
Join us to #StopNigeriaGovernment
Now!!!
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This does not make us an “arbiter of truth.” Our intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves. More transparency from us is critical so folks can clearly see the why behind our actions.
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If the goal is transparency to build trust, why not just release everything without filter and let people judge for themselves? Including all discussions around current and future actions? Make everything public now. #TwitterFiles
not a slip up...it's truth.
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"The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq... I mean of Ukraine"
Former US President George W Bush slips up and condemns Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of "Iraq"
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Elon’s goal of creating a platform that is “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive” is the right one. This is also ’s goal, and why I chose him. Thank you both for getting the company out of an impossible situation. This is the right path...I believe it with all my heart.
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones.”
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Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?
💯 🇳🇬
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The energy in Nigeria 
will transform the world. The youth have already begun building a pan African financial settlement layer using #bitcoin and nothing can stop peer to peer. Africa is now leading the new world of finance and crypto adoption. Let us all show them love 
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will transform the world. The youth have already begun building a pan African financial settlement layer using #bitcoin and nothing can stop peer to peer. Africa is now leading the new world of finance and crypto adoption. Let us all show them love twitter.com/jack/status/14…
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Square is considering building a Bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals and businesses worldwide. If we do this, we’d follow our hardware wallet model: build in the open in collaboration with the community. First some thoughts and questions.
I have tried taking a break from Twitter recently, but I must say: the company has always tried to do its best given the information it had. Every decision we made was ultimately my responsibility*. In the cases we were wrong or went too far, we admitted it and worked to correct.
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Per our Civic Integrity policy (help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p), the tweets yesterday may mislead people into thinking they don’t need to register to get a ballot (only registered voters receive ballots). We’re updating the link on ’s tweet to make this more clear.
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Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.
Both Twitter and Square are making #Juneteenth (June 19th) a company holiday in the US, forevermore. A day for celebration, education, and connection.
juneteenth.com/history.htm
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An Open Letter To The Nigerian Government: Pursue A #Bitcoin Standard.
"A delay in pursuing a national plan for bitcoin adoption will risk a scenario where Nigeria is left behind."
Written by @RussellOkung.
bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoi
Did you read the article you’re about to spread?
Square is creating a new business (joining Seller, Cash App, & Tidal) focused on building an open developer platform with the sole goal of making it easy to create non-custodial, permissionless, and decentralized financial services. Our primary focus is #Bitcoin. Its name is TBD.
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The idea and service is all that matters to me, and I will do whatever it takes to protect both. Twitter as a company has always been my sole issue and my biggest regret. It has been owned by Wall Street and the ad model. Taking it back from Wall Street is the correct first step.
these tracking additions when sharing a tweet are a step backwards
nothing needed after the ?
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These “tracking additions” to a Tweet URL that Jack is referencing was actually made over a year ago (as early as August 2021) while he was still CEO of Twitter.
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It’s fucked up this has to be requested
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BREAKING: Kentucky's Governor, Andy Beshear is calling for the evidence in #BreonnaTalyor investigation to be released.
Yes, you are.
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I believe this was the right decision for Twitter. We faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance, forcing us to focus all of our actions on public safety. Offline harm as a result of online speech is demonstrably real, and what drives our policy and enforcement above all.