As Twitchy told you earlier, Twitter users are not happy and more than a little concerned about the future of the social media giant after Elon Musk's decision to introduce 'rate limits' to the platform.
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey decided to weigh in on the controversy with this bit of advice:
— jack (@jack) July 1, 2023
Get it? The creator of Twitter wants you to go out and touch grass. We're not sure if it's supposed to be funny or if it's some kind of judgement on the people that rely on the platform for news, entertainment, and social interaction.
Obviously it's not the worst idea in the world to step away from the socials and enjoy what we denizens of the net call 'in real life', but maybe Dorsey isn't the one to point that out?
Musk himself retweeted the post, which makes it that much more puzzling.
As always, people had thoughts:
Touch grass... @elonmusk 🤔
— Hank (@GCapital_LLC) July 1, 2023
Jack telling us, via Twitter, to go outside and touch grass
— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) July 1, 2023
— @DREWBITS (@DREWBITS) July 1, 2023
Right? Rather confusing.
Well, something must have happened from the time we started writing this post to the time we were just about to close it, because Dorsey tweeted this just a bit ago:
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.
— jack (@jack) July 1, 2023
Why did you backpedal? The grass post was hilarious.
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) July 1, 2023
It actually was kind of funny, if we're being a hundred percent honest.
Everyone seeing that tweet on mobile touched grass. Was a public service, not a critique.
— jack (@jack) July 1, 2023
Okay.
People truly love it and want it to succeed.
— jack (@jack) July 1, 2023
On that, we can agree.
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