Tweet Storm

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has chosen an interesting time to pick a fight with his most important user

- Kurt Wagner

Jack Dorsey eats around 6:30 p.m. each night, a meal typically consisting of meat or fish, greens, berries, chocolate, and a multivitamin, with red wine. For breakfast, he drinks 28 ounces of water. For lunch, he has more water. He’s been known to go entire weekends on water alone.

When it comes to human contact, Dorsey’s tastes also tend to the ascetic: He attends 10-day silent retreats where even reading and eye contact are forbidden. Before the pandemic forced everyone to stay home, he would often complete the five-mile commute from his house to the San Francisco headquarters of Twitter Inc. on foot, even in the rain, and usually wearing sandals.

“I learn the most when I make myself—I wouldn’t say suffer, but when I make myself feel uncomfortable,” Dorsey said on a podcast earlier this year.

If that’s true, Dorsey must be loving life right now. Twitter, where he serves as chief executive officer (a part-time job, since he’s also CEO of the payments company Square Inc.), has become a favorite target of President Trump. The president has raged against the company since May 26, when Twitter attempted to fact-check two of his tweets about mail-in voting, and, a few days later, suppressed another that seemed to incite violence. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump wrote, referring to the fatal shooting of a suspected looter by a Minneapolis pawnshop owner during protests, among other violent incidents around the country. Twitter left the implied threat up, but forced readers to click on a message that said the post was a violation of its rules that prohibit “glorifying violence” before they could see it.