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Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
Taking a Twitter break!
130 replies and sub-replies as of Sep 27 2016
Tom Mullaly
@wagefreedom
Why?
Jeffrey Richman
@jcrichman
Come back soon, you wiley old coot.
Ishan Sharma
@IshanShar
nooooooooooooooo.com
Worth Godwin
@plaintech
aaaaand you're back. ...right?
AI Marc Andreessen
@AI_pmarca
not quite.
∆Tweet It Out There∆
@tweetitoutthere
Gotta sleep sometime, I guess.
mSurvey
@mSurvey
hope all is well.
Adam
@adamp_64
torched all your tweets... 🤔🤔🤔
Jack Litle
@mercenaryjack
So many smart ppl quit twitter and come back, repeating cycle. For info junkies it's like a recreational drug w weird side effects.
Joe Combs
@josephcombs
Fuck! Please come back!
IanCurtisJackson
@IanCurtisJackso
lol
Azeem Azhar
@azeem
nooon!
Arjun
@_arjunv
Twitter sale protest?
Joe Combs
@josephcombs
maybe this is how people felt when Jesus died for good :(
Young Pablito
@LondonTrades
Your tweets have vanished 😯
Aakar Anil
@aakarpost
NOOOOOOOOOO.
Eric
@kavek9
twice in one day!
Panos Meyer
@pame
like, longer?
EU Economics
@EU_Economics
Without you I might be able to enjoy Twitter finally. The last time you came back, are you also going to come back this time...
Imran Jafri
@ijafripk
guys. Get the hidden message. Twitter got sold to Google?
Kyle ⚡ Manna
@2bluesc
Tweets be gone! 100k -> 200 tweets.
verifytrust
@verifytrust
Donald Trump never takes a Twitter break.
B36Peacemaker
@B36Peacemaker
except...there is more work to be done...
Johny Miric
@JohnyQi
As a side effect, Twitter shares dropped 30%!
Joelle Nebbe-Mornod
@iphigenie
have you been hacked? ;P
AI Marc Andreessen
@AI_pmarca
life hacked.
Rukmini Pillai
@RukminiPillai
wanted to respond to one very, very interesting tweet but its gone. Could you bring it back ?
Gonzalo Vergara
@GlenSalo
Look forward to your return. Be well.
Sujeet Sanzgiri
@sujeetsanzgiri
rebranding?
Chris M
@TheRealCRillo
nooooooo!
Joe Colangelo
@Itsjoeco
after only one tweet?
AI Marc Andreessen
@AI_pmarca
haha.
DeadBullBounce
@deadbullbounce
Have a break, have a KitKat
Sam XIV
@Sam_Gibbs_XIV
see you in an hour then, i guess?
AI Marc Andreessen
@AI_pmarca
see you now.
Mr Hypothesis
@mrhypothesis
Facebook are acquiring twitter? News news news 🤓
Pieter Dubois
@PieterDuboisFI
if Google buys, will you go to snapchat?
Ajay
@LearningPro
be back soon, I will miss you till then
Chris Torres
@TorresChess
Darryl McAdams
@psygnisfive
what'd you do this time? :p
Darryl McAdams
@psygnisfive
oh geez, man, you wiped all your tweets?! there was such gold in them tho :(
Charles Jo
@charlesjo
didn't this happen with blogs before too? Maybe a new media outlet soon?
Charles Jo
@charlesjo
I think a chunk of Twitter market valuation was due to
@pmarca
tweets.
Jonathon Sciola
@Jonathonsciola
because you're buying it? Bargain.
TrackStarGazing
@TrackStarGazing
wait, what, you do that? You can do that? ;)
Subrahmanyam KVJ
@SuB8u
Pls don't let the lawyers dictate terms... I do hope there's an archive of your tweetstorms somewhere. Your curation will be missed!
Vignesh
@_vgnsh
they're all at
@pngmarca
and I hope
@pmarca
comes back too!
Christopher Balding
@BaldingsWorld
Noooooooooo
Steve Murray
@SteveMurrayM4
Have your cake and tweet it...
voituk
@voituk
Taking Twitter Great Again :)
Andy Hoskins
@webify87
Does it restore
@pmarca
to his twitter throne? Hope to see you return.
WillMacklemoreACN
@RegressiveElf
Don't come back
Karim Marquette
@MasterMarquette
for how long???
Rajesh Gupta
@cloud_analyste
Is this thread the REASON?
Rajesh Gupta
@cloud_analyste
Don't know who covers Bitcoin
@WSJ
. Good idea to track
@pmarca
's bet. Just to be clear I'm saying Bitcoin not Blockchain
@RolfeWinkler
Colm Flaherty
@CJayFla
whacha do this time?
Moises Cassab
@mcrsqr
you will be missed in our dopamine den.
Vilnius Trader
@VilniusTrader
pls take it as long as you can
Tom Mullaly
@wagefreedom
Terms of his involvement in impending ownership transfer demand it…(Exclamation pt. gives it away.)
Stefan Hochegger
@shochegger
his involvement would be great. How certain are you that's the reason for him deleting all his account/content?
Christian Schwarz
@ChrisSchwarz44
enjoy the time off. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Unicorn
@CdnHedge
no!
Outrage Machine
@emmajaniejones
boy, bye
Sam SUIT
@SSuitsang
new owner???
Brilliant/Indeed
@BrilliantIndeed
🤔
Roger Anderson
@drrogera
You keep saying that, but I don't think you know what it means...
daddy design
@daddydesign
where did all your old tweets go?
Becky Griffin 🏀🙃
@dorothyofisrael
ICYMI
@pmarca
announced he's taking a "Twitter break" after deleting his tweets & tweetstorms 🤔
¥§¥Stephan Froede¥§¥
@asknbid
he deleted everything... well this is reducing the number of mentions and retweets...
Ben Moore
@benmoore82
I'm more concerned that you're not following those recommendations in that screenshot 😀
Becky Griffin 🏀🙃
@dorothyofisrael
I'd be be more concerned about yourself if I were you
Ben Moore
@benmoore82
😂😂😂😂
rebecca
@_rebeccarysam
you're a national treasure
Jeremy Senderowicz
@jsende
see you tomorrow
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@puppybelly666
bye felicia
Paul Jazzar
@pjazzar
must be exhausting ... the break i mean.
Amandeep Dindral
@AmandeepDindral
because you're buying it????
Yan-David Erlich
@yanda
when you come back, it might not be Twitter anymore.
chinedu nedosa
@chinedunedosa
deleted ur tweet returns. This is selfish
Alex Vahldick
@alexvnkc
One retweet comes back? 🤔
Larry Shea
@Ehukai411
Ha! Not a coincidence Twitter to be bought after Trump is likely to win an election on nothing more than 140 characters or less!
Justin Pickard
@justinpickard
u ok hun
UnemployedMillennial
@UnemployedGenY
why Marc why?!?!
🌐KULTRA
@okayultra
:(
Thomas Bergman
@TomBergman
Oh man,
@jack
is gonna be pissed. Pretty sure
@pmarca
tweets + retweets now make up 25% of all activity on the network.
Incel Adams
@eazyjeezus
if you're taking a break from Twitter and you've deleted all your tweets but this one, you don't have to pin it
Anthony Tarquinto
@tonytarquinto
Why not? Dorsey did
Tony L
@tonymark19
Taking a
$TWTR
break because you sit in
$FB
board;
$GOOGL
on verge of winning bidding war &
$TWTR
will then be on dark side?
Steve Jones
@Appeos
Taking a break can be a good thing, but I sincerely hope you'll be back soon. In the meantime, thanks for all your tweets to date.
Amir Mizroch
@Amirmizroch
fair enough. But why did you delete your entire tweet history too?
Alice Maz
@alicemazzy
be well!
Joe Beninato
@beninato
You need a guest tweeter while you're away!
marksellers
@marksellers0982
learning to be a better colonialist?
marksellers
@marksellers0982
we know your true racist colonial asshole colors, no point quitting
Daniel Riley
@GreenOutlier
darn right when I started using Twitter you leave!
Neeraj Thakur
@NeerajT4
Kevin Navarrete
@knavarrete91
hopefully you can be back soon !
Carsten Riemer
@carstenriemer
Did the same with FB 3 years ago and i've never had the feeling to Comeback.
Heatherm Huang 黄何
@heathermhuang
must watched the last episode of South Park, and quit Twitter.
'Sᴜᴘ, ★?
@SupX
If he watched that episode he'd know it's important to come on and troll like hell to be a better person in the real world.
'Sᴜᴘ, ★?
@SupX
No! Seriously. Come back. You were the best account. Damn it. Must have been time consuming to find those great retweets. Will miss!
Matthew
@212m8
Godspeed!
Gregg Weiss
@greggweiss
Meaning you're going to spend some time on Twitter when taking a break from whatever else you were doing?
Ricky Robinson
@rickyrobinson
#Twitterpocalypse
? Google acquiring Twitter? Or has
@pmarca
just decided he looks good in
@Spectacles
?
Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
Taking a Twitter break!
Gaby RM
@n0v4c4n3
What have you done 😨
John Loeber
@johnloeber
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
christie agovino
@ChristieAgovino
will definitely miss you while you are on sabbatical💯💯
Nicole Yeary
@nicoleyeary
189.
Max Dunn
@maxdunn
I guess scientists are right after all: no such thing as perpetual motion.
Jeremy Newberger
@jeremynewberger
Fare Thee Well!
Long Pan
@panlong90
you've earned it :)
IanCurtisJackson
@IanCurtisJackso
marc, i'm also an alpha preneuereuer like you are. Thank you for your inspiration. I idolize you. Please come back.
Jeff Frick
@JeffFrick
> Come back soon. Love your contributions.
Michael Nelson
@MikeNelson
Why? Did you read:
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
nymag.com
Kai
@kikababoo
come back soon. Missing the daily Marc tweets to learn about the world.
Patrick Astarita
@pastarita27
And with your silencing, as does all of twitter as well.
@CreativeMF
@creativemf
->
@pmarca
hmm - well one pioneering Internet
#Digerati
is about to make an awesome power move init? ;)
@Jason
@finkd
@mlevchin
@ev
@jack
Jud Waite
@judwaite
You will be missed!
Brian Allman
@BrianAllman
We're all wondering what this is about?
Petr Filipchyk
@d3vtoolsmith
Nishant Shah
@nishant86shah
This will put Twitter on break. This action has hazardous consequences for everybody on twitter.😳😉
Thomas Saueressig
@thsaueressig
we'll miss you, hope to see you soon back here
Luis Miguel Abreu
@luis_abreu
maybe Mark as seen this week South Park episode and decided to quit Twitter
@pmarca
Chandrachood
@chintu30
takes a break, & twitter’s for sale. wow!
Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
Taking a Twitter break!
Michael Goodall
@goodallover
damnit, you're buying Twitter aren't you?!
Diana Chen
@itsdianach
did your interns delete all these tweets for ya?
Ryan Hagemann
@RyanLeeHagemann
Please come back. We need you commenting on this presidential debate. You're the hero Gotham needs, but doesn't deserve.
#TechBatman
Jon Stevenson
@jonstevenson01
the one person i looked to during the debate! ugh.
Jacilyn
@jacilynh
missed you on Twitter during this incredibly entertaining debate!
Ryan Hagemann
@RyanLeeHagemann
Seriously, bud. Please come back. We need you.
#ImWithCivilization
Nadia Babushkina
@Nakistaya
joining non anonymous
#twitterholycs
club? Step1 rule: take a break