Digerati say the cutest things.
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
