Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey snubs Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg by going out of his way to publicly unfollow fellow tech mogul in a tweet
- Twitter head Jack Dorsey publicly unfollowed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
- Dorsey appears to have made efforts to ensure the unfollow was noticed
- In a response to Mashable Twitter responded with a goat emoji
- The response likely references a story divulged by Dorsey earler this year
- Dorsey claims that Zuckerberg fed him a goat he had slaughtered himself
Turns out the titans of tech can be just as petty as the rest of us.
In a very public gesture on Tuesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey went out of his way to unfollow rival and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a way that other users wouldn’t miss.
As reported by Mashable, Dorsey initiated his plan by following the Twitter account @BigTechAlert which, according to the account’s own bio, “[follows] what the CEOs and other high executives from Big Tech companies do on Twitter[.]”
Shortly after, the account tweeted an alert to its followers that Dorsey had followed them.
But it wasn’t this alert that caught users’ attention. Not even a minute after following @BigTechAlert, Dorsey unfollowed Zuckerberg on Twitter, prompting the CEO-tracking account to alert its followers of the move.
In response to Mashable’s inquiry into the move, a Twitter spokesperson responded only with a goat emoji.
This is likely in reference to an unnerving story divulged by Dorsey in January. The Twitter CEO claimed that in a strange dinner at Zuckerberg’s house, the Facebook owner served Dorsey goat meat from an animal he had slaughtered himself.
Dorsey claims that Zuckerberg keeps a small allotment of goats on his Palo Alto which he raises himself.
In a more recent display of animosity, Dorsey has also criticized Zukerberg publicly for the mogul’s policy on political advertising.
Facebook has controversially declined to fact check political advertisements on its platform, claiming that the move would violate its views on free speech.
The decision comes at a time when Facebook has come under fire for not doing enough to stem political misinformation campaigns launched by foreign actors.
Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg have had more than one public spat this year including one over political ads
As a response to Facebook’s decision, Twitter decided to take an entirely different approach to its policy on political advertisements by banning them altogether.
While the recent spat seems to be less philosophical and potentially a lot more petty, it represents a growing and increasingly nasty rift between two of the biggest names in social media and technology on the whole.
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