Biz Stone is a Moron.
Years ago, I was told that intelligence often has little bearing on a person’s income earning capacity. I believe George W. Bush proves that statement and now it would seem also Mr. Biz Stone.
In case you don’t recognize the name, Mr. Stone is one of the founders of twitter and approximately in August of 2009, I was prepared to go to downtown San Francisco and kick him in the balls. Then I found out he had no balls and I pretty much figured that by now he would have died from his own stupidity.
So you may wonder what happened to cause me to so loathe this twit and why, now, 6 months later I would be writing this blog. Well, for that we need to go back in time to August of 2009. I was an active twitter user at twitter.com/jsgilbert. I had accumulated almost 10,000 followers, among them some very impressive names in marketing, advertising, publishing, broadcasting and so on. I was retweeted and I retweeted others and I had invested hundreds of hours building up an impressive little twitter presence. But somehow, I got hacked into, or at least that’s what I think happened. I went into my account and promptly changed the password and all was right – or so I thought. Then I received an email from twitter stating that my account had been suspended for 30 days due to suspicious activity. I sent them several communications explaining what I thought had happened and I received a couple of standard responses from some computer. And if you go to www.twitter.com/jsgilbert, a full 6 months after this, you will see that my account is still suspended.
This despite the fact that I was one of the most successful and popular twitterati at the time and perhaps responsible for Mr. Stone getting several thousand new twitter users.
I have left messages for people at twitter and tried to communicate further to no avail. Although at this point, I realize that twitter is little more than a passing fad and that Biz, like so many dot com CEO’s before him, will probably be looking for something he’s more suited to be doing, like work as a pizza delivery boy one of these days.
But here’s what set me off on this moron. He sent me the following email the other day. Yes, the poor hapless schmuck can’t even differentiate the accounts he has unceremoniously tossed to the curb from the people who may actually care 2 poops about him or twitter.
The following is his email to me, as it appeared with no adulterating or enhancements.
-start of email-
Hi there,
In the early days of Twitter, I used to send out short updates just to keep everyone in the loop since so much was happening. It’s been a while, but you signed up for short, monthly updates from Twitter so we thought it was time to start sharing more information. We’ve had quite a year. If you haven’t visited in a while, we’d like to invite you to come have a look at http://twitter.com — we’ve been busy!
Growing Up
In the course of a year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500% and our team has grown 500%. Recently, we hired our 140th employee! His name is Aaron and he’s an engineer focused on building internal tools to help promote productivity, communication, and support within our company. We celebrated with a little dance party.
Features of Note
Some features of note that we released over the course of a year include the ability to create lists, quickly spread information with a retweet button, and an easier way to activate your mobile phone to work with Twitter over SMS. We also built a new mobile web site that looks and works much better on smart phones.
Feeling Inspired
By working together during critical times when others needed help, sharing important information that otherwise might not make the news, and inventing new and interesting ways to use Twitter, you’ve shown us that Twitter is more than a triumph of technology — it is a triumph of humanity. Projects like Fledgling and Hope140 were inspired by you.
Chirp!
While there may only be 140 full-time employees working at the Twitter offices, there are thousands of dedicated platform developers who have now created more than 70,000 registered Twitter applications creating variety and utility for all of us. We’ll be gathering this spring at Chirp, our first ever official Twitter developer conference.
Thanks,
Biz Stone, Co-founder (@Biz)
Twitter, Inc.
PS: This was sent to voicesf@pacbell.net for the account @jsgilbert. If you’d rather not receive newsletters from Twitter, you can unsubscribe immediately. For questions, please visit us at Twitter Support.
-end of email-
Strange how he brags about the 3rd party developers he has, since it was no doubt accessing one of them that opened my account up to a vulnerability. No benefit of the doubt. No personal touch. No attempt to reconciliate. And now this. Biz Stone, you’re a douche!
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