Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey quits Instagram
"Deleted my instagram account after 12 years. was one of the first 10 accounts I believe, and one of the first angel investors," Dorsey wrote in a post X (formerly Twitter) recently.
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter (now X) has quit Instagram apparently indicating that he has taken a side in the Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s fight.
Dorsey remarked after quitting the Instagram that he had gone "Meta free."
"Deleted my instagram account after 12 years. was one of the first 10 accounts I believe, and one of the first angel investors," Dorsey wrote in a post X (formerly Twitter) recently.
"Who will they give the @jack handle to?" Dorsey continued in the post, and appeared to diss some of Meta's other platforms, too.
He went on to say that did not have Facebook or WhatsApp accounts either. "Clear eyes, meta free, can't lose," he added.
Dorsey had earlier also said that he did not use any Meta products and remarked that he and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg had "different approaches" when asked if they had "beef" on a 2020 podcast.
Dorsey's announcement caught the eye of Musk himself, who responded with a single fire emoji, prompting replies from some commentators speculating whether Dorsey would be keeping his profile on X.
Dorsey resigned as Twitter's CEO in 2021, and in October 2022, Elon Musk acquired the platform. Musk's handling of the company has come under intense scrutiny. Dorsey, who co-founded the X rival app Bluesky, appeared to express sympathy for Musk in a post on X from early July where he said that "running Twitter is hard."
Dorsey has seemingly poked jabs at Zuckerberg's Threads in previous posts on X. He had also recently shared a screenshot that purportedly showed that Zuckerberg had requested to follow him on Threads.
The source of Dorsey's ire with Meta likely goes back to a battle over social platforms. When Facebook came under fire for not fact-checking political ads, Dorsey said that Twitter would stop all political advertising and criticized Zuckerberg's free speech argument. He also mocked Zuckerberg's plans to rebrand Facebook into an all-caps logo, and his Metaverse plan.
