“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.
“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
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