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Jack Dorsey just unfollowed Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter

2025-04-26 19:52:21

When you're going to snub your corporate and philosophical rival, you might as well do it with a little flair.

That seems to be the thinking of Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, who, on Dec. 17, not only unfollowed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter account, but also threw in a little hidden easter egg just to make sure we all got the fuck youmessage.

It started with Dorsey following @BigTechAlert, a Twitter account that, in its own words, "[follows] what the CEOs and other high executives from Big Tech companies do on Twitter[.]"

And, of course, @BigTechAlert notified its followers of this move.

"@jack is now following @BigTechAlert," tweeted the account.

Having done this — thus signifying that he was aware of the @BigTechAlert account and knew it would blast his Twitter moves to the account's followers, Dorsey then unfollowed Zuckerberg's account.

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"@jack is no longer following @finkd," alerted the account.

We reached out to Twitter in an effort to determine Dorsey's reason for unfollowing Zuckerberg, but received no immediate response.

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Interestingly, Zuckerberg hasn't tweeted from the @finkd account since 2012, suggesting that Dorsey's move was more about making a statement than cleaning up his Twitter feed. Of course, there is one other possibility, however small: Zuckerberg logged into Twitter and blocked Dorsey — thus causing Dorsey's account to unfollow Zuckerberg's account. Although, seeing as how Dorsey just followed @BigTechAlert today, we doubt it.

Either way, we're totally here for this social media laser-killed CEO beef. Here's hoping this is only the beginning.

UPDATE: Dec. 17, 2019, 12:18 p.m. PST: Speaking of lasers, a Twitter spokesperson replied to our request for comment with the following: "🐐."

Yeah, literally just a goat emoji.

Thankfully, no goats appear to have been killed in the making of that corporate statement.