On: Marc Andreessen suddenly deletes all his tweets, g...

[exstudent2]

This is my guess. He probably knows a sale is happening and doesn't want to provide value to the new owner. Probably because he has a competitive portfolio company or something.

[RickS → exstudent2]

That sounds petty and spiteful in a way I wouldn't expect from him, especially so publicly.

Also, as valuable as his presence is, I can't imagine a buyer of the size needed to buy Twitter would be like "we'll give you n Billion, but only if pmarca stays on point"

[exstudent2 → RickS]

> That sounds petty and spiteful in a way I wouldn't expect from him, especially so publicly.

He was pretty notorious for blocking anyone with an opposing viewpoint on Twitter, so this seems in line with that.

[catherinelgrs → RickS]

Perhaps Facebook is interested and Marc decided to stop tweeting to avoid conflicts?

Not sure why he would delete the (public) history, though.

[tamana → exstudent2]

More likely because he might be involved in a company that would have a quiet period related to a potential sale

[prawn → exstudent2]

Could a buyer get access to his direct messages?

[hackaflocka → prawn]

This could be a legitimate concern of his. But I would guess that even if he were to delete everything, Twitter would still have permanently archived undeleted copies (Facebook does that apparently).

[a_small_island → exstudent2]

This is nonsense.