Dorsey's exit shakes up Twitter future | TheHill

Jack Dorsey’s announcement Monday that he is exiting Twitter after co-founding the company and serving as its CEO for the last six years is a seismic shift for a social media company at the heart of politics and the news media.The eccentric CEO’s departure comes as Twitter has set high new goals for user and revenue growth and rolled out a series of new products.It also takes place as Twitter remains under the microscope for the role it and other social media firms have played in stoking an increasingly divided nation.Twitter was the social media forum of choice for President TrumpDonald TrumpPence: Supreme Court has chance to right ‘historic wrong’ with abortion ruling Prosecutor says during trial that actor Jussie Smollett staged ‘fake hate crime’ Overnight Defense & National Security — US, Iran return to negotiating table MORE, who was only removed from the platform after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.Dorsey will be replaced atop Twitter’s hierarchy by former chief technology officer Parag Agrawal, who joined the company in 2011 as a software engineer.The change in leadership offers an opportunity for Twitter to shift course in any number of ways, but does…
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