“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
“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
“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
“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
“It’s not an ad platform, it’s an ‘@’ platform.”
Twitter CEO Evan Williams, on how he plans to make money by having other Web companies send him traffic for free, CNET News, 15 March 2010
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