Oh wow. I was honestly annoyed the conversation was a tangent about alt text. Then you all found evidence that he withdrew for takeover reasons. Time to eat some humble pie. (I also have blind friends, and suddenly feel terrible about diminishing the importance of alt text.)

What an interesting mistake. There must have been three or four messages. I wonder if the CEO acted alone or as a part of a team.

Talk about “no good deed goes unpunished.”

But the alleged "takeover reasons" bit is in the published text, not the alt text.

Makes no difference, we now know he revised that portion of his message to emphasize autonomy and mulled over it. It’s a view into what he’s thinking.

Haha.

Whoops. Time to bow out.

(Thank you for pointing out the mistake so gracefully. Have a good night.)

One problem with Twitter’s alt text is that it’s too short. I copy paste HN comments into alt text, but am almost always met with an error. In that situation I just link to the original comment, but the CEO couldn’t do that here.

Hahah it's not your day today or seems :P

Don’t think their current CEO ever came across as the “acts alone” sort to be honest.

Where's the "we're still in control" bit?

The final version's "the decisions we make and how we execute is in our hands, no-one else's".

Aha! I had interpreted it as a direct quote. That makes sense.

It's the "our decisions remain in our hands" thing, if I understand correctly.