Twitter CEO Compares US Mood To Arab Spring

Yemeni soldiers who joined sides with anti-regime protesters ride on a military vehicle and drive through the streets of Sanaa on May 27, 2011. (Photo credit: AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)

ERIC LIEBERMAN
The Daily Caller

The CEO of Twitter seemingly believes America is currently experiencing civil unrest comparable to the Arab Spring, a series of revolutionary protests, coups and civil wars in the Arab world a few years ago.

While the social media company appears to be treading water after a rough past few months, which includes a number of high-level staff departures and a relatively sinking stock price, Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey sees his platform’s influence in society remaining largely the same, if not growing.

“A lot of the same patterns we’ve seen during the Iranian Green Revolution and the Arab Spring,” Dorsey said Wednesday at a tech conference hosted by Goldman Sachs, according to Fortune. “It was stunning to see how Twitter was being used to have a conversation about the government, with the government.”

Dorsey recounted the first time he got the impression that Twitter was so integral to American society: the protests and riots in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.

“As a culture in the U.S., we’ve focused on things that didn’t matter as much,” Dorsey said, according to Fortune. “Now, everything is brought into perspective, and Twitter is at center of the most important conversations.”

Dorsey touted his social media company as still one of the biggest, if not the largest, platforms for political, civic, and cultural conversations. (RELATED: Twitter Doesn’t Rule Out Banning Trump If He Gets Too Unruly)

“Our greatest superpower is we break news faster than anyone on the planet,” Dorsey said.

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