Twitter’s former boss, Jack Dorsey, does not seem to agree with its newest boss Elon Musk.

Since taking over the social media platform, Musk has been quick to make a number of changes including charging $8 a month for a blue verification checkmark.

Musk also decided to rename Birdwatch, Twitter’s community-based misinformation feature to ‘Community Notes’.

This change has not gone down well with Dorsey, who called it the ‘most boring Facebook name ever’.

Birdwatch is a feature on Twitter since 2021 that allows users to flag information in posts.

‘Accurate to who?’ asked Dorsey, who believes that Birdwatch is a far better name.

He added that being ‘more informative’ was ‘a far better goal’ than Musk’s pursuit to be ‘the most accurate’.

Musk defended the name change saying the accuracy would be ‘judged by the people of Twitter via Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch)’ as ‘Birdwatch gives me the creeps’.

The Tesla CEO told Dorsey that ‘not everything needs to have “bird” in the name’ and there were ‘too many bird groups fighting each internally other at Twitter’ calling them ‘Angry Birds’.

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Still, Dorsey was not convinced as he thinks ‘community’ or ‘notes’ are not the right descriptors for the feature.

‘Descriptive is always better,’ tweeted Dorsey.

On Monday, Dorsey added to his criticism of the new Twitter by tweeting about tracking additions when sharing a tweet as a ‘step backwards’.

Around the same time last year, Dorsey resigned as the chief executive of Twitter.

Dorsey co-founded Twitter alongside, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams back in 2006. Before announcing his departure, he tweeted saying: ‘I love Twitter.’

Over the weekend, Dorsey acknowledged his role in Twitter’s current state and apologised for growing the company size ‘too quickly’.

The former CEO still has an indirect stake in the social media company after Musk took it private for $44 billion, a securities filing showed on Monday.

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