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Yeah, well, it would have been cool if you could have done something about it along the way, but after 16 years, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says he has regrets and feelings of guilt about what he created. 

The quiet guy with the big beard has announced he’s leaving Twitter later this year.  In a recent tweet, he admitted that he feels guilty about creating a social media platform that has played a big role in the division of America. The platform has 217 daily users. Dorsey puts his company in the same category as Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta as the shortlist of companies that created a centralized internet where just a few entities gather most of the users and data on the web. 

It’s not like he had a tearful admission or showed much more emotion than the bots that love his platform, but here is what Dorsey said in that tweet. 

“the days of usenet, irc, the web…even email (w PGP)…were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet.

I realize I’m partially to blame, and regret it.”

What’s ironic about the tweet is that if Elon Musk is successful in implementing an edit button feature on Twitter, Dorsey could have gone back and capitalized the first word of that tweet to make it appear like he put more thought into it. 

Dorsey is no longer the CEO of Twitter and hopes to put the company in his rearview mirror in November. 

A CNBC report references a quote Dorsey gave the New York Times two years ago about Dorsey’s admission that Twitter’s founders did not show much foresight as they created the site – specifically including the “like” option on tweets which seemed to give trolls incentive to pump up the popularity of the most controversial or vile tweets. 

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