Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

EVERY DAY, TWITTER IS MAKING HUMANS EASIER TO USE

April 14, 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

A REAL-TIME NETWORK OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHO’S PAYING

April 12, 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

LIFESPAN OF THE AVERAGE TWITTER DEVELOPER: 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS

April 7, 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

EMPHASIS ON “BUBBLES”

March 30, 2010

“Twitter’s homepage is a work-in-progress. Today, we’re testing a new design that bubbles up more of the information flowing through Twitter.”

Twitter design chief Doug Bowman, on the tricky process of transforming the world’s biggest oversharing network into something that venture capitalists might overpay for, Twitter Blog, 30 March 2010

THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S KEYNOTE

March 17, 2010

“In short, the Twitterati in the audience thought our hour-long chat was about as interesting as watching a pair of grandmothers play Canasta.”

Havas Media Lab director Umair Haque, managing to insult grandmothers everywhere while apologizing to SXSW attendees for his disappoint interview with Twitter CEO Evan Williams, Harvard Business Review, 17 March 2010