Twitter, one of the most popular social networks today, has hired Tess Rinearson as the leader of its new team specializing in cryptocurrencies and decentralization.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey thinks about the cryptocurrencies, and new technologies as innovative tools that can provide greater freedom and decision-making power to people around the world. This philosophy is being transferred to the mini-blogging social network, Twitter, which continues to advance on its path to decentralizing social networks.
The innovative proposal, presented by Dorsey in 2019, has been gaining momentum in recent months. Twitter has made important moves to consolidate its proposal to decentralize social media through Bluesky; a new social network that will give people back the power of choice and decision over the content they want to see when using a platform like Twitter, far from the centralized content algorithms that currently exist. Thus, to continue consolidating its proposal, the social network company signs Tess Rinearson to lead its newly formed team specializing in cryptocurrencies and decentralization, called twitter crypto.
Through a post on his official account, Rinearson expressed his excitement at joining the new Twitter team, which will help the platform discover how it can benefit from cryptocurrencies and new technologies for its decentralization, growth and development.
In mid-August, Jack Dorsey announced the addition of Jay Graber, a software engineer and developer blockchain, as leader of Bluesky, his proposal to promote the decentralization of social networks.
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Twitter, BlueSky and decentralization
The new team formed by Twitter will be focused on discovering what blockchain technology can do and the cryptography by Twitter, to enhance its current functionalities and unlock new use cases and value opportunities for its millions of users around the world. As Rinearson explained in his post, his mission as the leader of the new Twitter Crypto team, specializing in cryptocurrencies and decentralization, is to boost and energize the Twitter platform to support new developments taking place within the crypto industry.
Rinearson emphasized that Twitter will integrate with non-fungible tokens (NFT) and will explore new tools and functionalities, in addition to tips and micro payments with Bitcoin. At the end of September, the mini-blogging social network announced the implementation of BTC and Lightning Network to allow its users to make and receive payments and tips with this cryptocurrency through its platform. Since then, the world's leading cryptocurrency has become the social network's native currency.
Twitter Crypto will take advantage of the growing interest in decentralized technologies to develop a set of innovative tools, possibly integrating decentralized applications (DApps), NFT and DAOs, to drive decentralization of social media. Rinearson said he will be hiring new talent to boost his team and will work closely with Bluesky to shape the future of decentralized social media. Through Twitter Crypto, Twitter’s social network will remain at the forefront of this new landscape, he said.
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