“We’re pretty opposed to advertising. It really turns our stomachs.”
Tumblr founder David Karp, on his jingoistic opposition to connecting audiences with marketers, Los Angeles Times, 17 April 2010
Author: owenthomas
IT’S NOT OFFICIAL LIKE A REFEREE’S WHISTLE
“We will also admit our mistakes when they are made and the Blackberry client should never have been labeled ‘official.’ It has since been changed and you won’t see that language used with Twitter clients in the future.”
Twitter platform chief Ryan Sarver, on how his company will stop saying what it means in the future, Business Insider, 14 April 2010
EVERY DAY, TWITTER IS MAKING HUMANS EASIER TO USE
“Twitter is too hard to use. We’ve known this for a long time, but it was growing too fast for us to address these issues.”
Twitter CEO Ev Williams, on how he’s intentionally inconvenienced his users because he’s so darn busy, VentureBeat, 14 April 2010
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE KITTENS
“The telecom industry pretends like it’s not getting paid. From our perspective, it’s been quite expensive to get to where we are … We want to see the Internet remain free.”
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, who was acknowledged as an expert on not paying for things in recent court filings, TheWrap.com, 12 April 2010
A REAL-TIME NETWORK OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHO’S PAYING
“The idea behind Promoted Tweets is that we want to enhance the communications that companies are already having with customers on Twitter.”
Twitter COO and professional comedian Dick Costolo, keeping a straight face while pretending that Twitter’s new ads enhance anything but Twitter’s revenues, New York Times, 13 April 2010
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