“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
“Yes, I have a sugar daddy.”
The Daily Beast editrix Tina Brown, on how IAC chief Barry Diller keeps his pet content producer sweet, The Globe and Mail, 9 April 2010
“If you need to use a task manager, you’re doing it wrong.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who didn’t quite admit that his company failed to buy AdMob, a mobile-advertising startup, because of an inability to multitask, CNET News, 8 April 2010
“It is clear that you can build large businesses on top of a social platform like Facebook and Twitter.”
Twitter investor Fred Wilson, on why his company is about to stab a bunch of small businesses built on Twitter in the back, A VC, 7 April 2010
“By the end of this decade, power and influence will shift largely to those people with the best reputations and trust networks, from people with money and nominal power.”
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, on how the millions of dollars he took from eBay, not to mention his efforts to hide that fact, will make him less trustworthy in the future, Cnewmark.com, 6 April 2010
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