Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

CONVERSATION IS A LOST ARTIFICE

May 1, 2012

“We continue to talk to Google frequently and on an ongoing basis. They are a company that’s doing several different things right now. Those conversations have a complexity to them that is different than our conversations with the company.”

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, putting the “skate” in “obfuscate” while discussing his former employer, Business Insider, 1 May 2012

THE SUBLIME AND THE RIDICULOUS

April 27, 2012

“We go to Twitter for breaking news, not Facebook. If it’s important, we’ll toss it onto Twitter right away. We go to Facebook only when it’s transcendent.”

Eric Carvin, the Associated Press’s social media editor, on the transcendent news-sharing power of the world’s biggest baby-photo repository, Digiday, 26 April 2012.

THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN TWEET

November 26, 2010

“I am working on clarity around that at the moment. I am currently trying to define what Twitter’s purpose is in the long term.”

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, struggling to write a mission statement for the microblogging enterprise that stays under 140 characters, The Telegraph, 26 November 2010

IF THERE’S A PLATFORM, SOMEONE’S TAKING A DIVE

May 24, 2010

“When we discuss the future of Twitter, we focus on the mechanisms through which we can build a platform of enduring value.”

Dick Costolo, Twitter’s chief obfuscating officer, explaining to thick-minded ad slingers exactly who gets to make money around these here tweets, Twitter Blog, 24 May 2010

IT’S NOT OFFICIAL LIKE A REFEREE’S WHISTLE

April 15, 2010

“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