Dorsey-Andreessen Twitter spat escalates over web3 ownership


Andreessen blocked Dorsey from seeing or responding to his tweets, prompting the former Twitter CEO to joke that he has been banned from web3. — AFP

Billionaires are battling it out on Twitter. Again. This time it’s a tussle between the Block Inc founder and former Twitter Inc chief executive officer Jack Dorsey and the prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

Their feud, which escalated Wednesday when Andreessen blocked Dorsey from reading his Twitter posts, has drawn online eye-rolls and comparisons to a schoolyard dust-up, but it raises a serious set of questions around who gets to build the future of the Internet.

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