Former comedian Dick Costolo will “step down” (Ha Ha) from his CEO perch at Twitter, a company that only recently started making money and hasn’t been making enough of it. His replacement is Jack Dorsey, former poet, and notorious monster and screwer of friends.

Speculation surrounding Costolo’s shitcanning has been swirling, like so many un-monetized retweets, a claim he has denied and “laughed off.” Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter who has a tumultuous history with the company, was most recently the founder and CEO of Square, a financial services startup that’s struggled to make money. It’s unclear how that leadership experience will help Dorsey fix Twitter’s problems, most notably the fact that very few people actually use Twitter.

Other headlines considered for this post include:

  • Dick Out, Jack Off the Market
  • Twitter Takes Dick Out, Gets Jacked
  • Man With Penis Name Replaced By Man With Masturbation Name
  • Dick Out, Jack In

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