“We call them VIT’s internally, Very Important Tweeters. It’s cute; we’re all about being adorable and cute.”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, on how the company coddles celebrities who post messages on the information network, Bits, 25 July 2012
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TOO CUTE FOR CHARACTERS
July 26, 2012FAME IS TWEETING
July 11, 2012“So when Gabriel joined the company, it was like ‘Your job: no dying birds on national magazine covers. See if you can clear that low bar.’”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, on the easy job he’s handed new PR chief Gabriel Stricker, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2012
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
