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Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by grandalf »

MichaelApproved wrote: post #9
rb808 wrote: post #4

It feels like Twitter the company should be imploding, but it must be a secure business if its the next president's primary communication channel.

Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. Trump enjoys being treated like royalty. I doubt he has loyalty to Twitter and would jump ship to another company that puts him on a pedestal. He would enjoy seeing the millions of customers who follow him.

> another company

What other company offers a similar broadcast style approach for text content and doesn't require real name registration?

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by slg »

chollida1 wrote: post #3

I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave. The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company. Who ever the next CTO is, they're going to have some tough decisions to make. Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent. I don't want this to seem inflammat…

Was Twitter ever really about tech excellence? My perspective as an outsider who doesn't live or work in Silicon Valley, it always seemed more of a communications and media company founded on a tech backbone. Beyond their early scaling problems, which they spent a long, long time fighting, what really exciting tech has emerged from Twitter? Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook all have much more impressive technology to show for themselves over the last several years.

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by johns »

aresant wrote: post #7

Bigger to me is the VP of Product - Josh McFarland - just bailed out 30 minutes ago too: https://twitter.com/crazyfoo/status/811331557608652800 AKA outside of Dorsey, who is a split / shared CEO, who is in charge of Twitter?

I hope using a tweetstorm to announce his departure was a subtle shot at the company's inability to ship a product the way people want to use it.

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by user5994461 »

chollida1 wrote: post #3

I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave. The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company. Who ever the next CTO is, they're going to have some tough decisions to make. Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent. I don't want this to seem inflammat…

> Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent.

Lay off then no need to pay it.

There are 4000 employees, which is about one order of magnitude too much.

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by [deleted] »

grandalf wrote: post #11
MichaelApproved wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. Trump enjoys being treated like royalty. I doubt he has loyalty to Twitter and would jump ship to another company that puts him on a pedestal. He would enjoy seeing the millions of customers who follow him.

> another company What other company offers a similar broadcast style approach for text content and doesn't require real name registration?

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Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by symlinkk »

grandalf wrote: post #11
MichaelApproved wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. Trump enjoys being treated like royalty. I doubt he has loyalty to Twitter and would jump ship to another company that puts him on a pedestal. He would enjoy seeing the millions of customers who follow him.

> another company What other company offers a similar broadcast style approach for text content and doesn't require real name registration?

gab.ai

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by x0x0 »

aresant wrote: post #7

Bigger to me is the VP of Product - Josh McFarland - just bailed out 30 minutes ago too: https://twitter.com/crazyfoo/status/811331557608652800 AKA outside of Dorsey, who is a split / shared CEO, who is in charge of Twitter?

Josh came in from the TellApart acquisition, an adtech/retargeting/data company, where he was ceo.

I can't understand how he was vp product on a social network.

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by nightski »

slg wrote: post #12
chollida1 wrote: post #3

I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave. The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company. Who ever the next CTO is, they're going to have some tough decisions to make. Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent. I don't want this to seem inflammat…

Was Twitter ever really about tech excellence? My perspective as an outsider who doesn't live or work in Silicon Valley, it always seemed more of a communications and media company founded on a tech backbone. Beyond their early scaling problems, which they spent a long, long time fighting, what really exciting tech has emerged from Twitter? Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook all have much more impressive technology…

"Tech excellence" sounds like such a useless buzzword. There is no such thing, just incrementally better.

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by narrator »

grandalf wrote: post #10
chollida1 wrote: post #3

I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave. The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company. Who ever the next CTO is, they're going to have some tough decisions to make. Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent. I don't want this to seem inflammat…

> a big name in tech anymore Donald Trump is making headlines using Twitter every day. I think that once users/victims become immune to Facebook's dark patterns, Twitter will look pretty good. The only thing it can do to screw that up is continue censoring content and allowing botnets.

What's just bizarre is that they were seriously considering censoring Donald Trump's account at one point and even announced it. From a purely business standpoint, that was a dumb idea even to propose. It makes you wonder about the rationality of management and if they view the company as some sort of hipster San Francisco hobby paid for by VCs and not as a profit making enterprise.

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by fooey »

grandalf wrote: post #11
MichaelApproved wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him. Trump enjoys being treated like royalty. I doubt he has loyalty to Twitter and would jump ship to another company that puts him on a pedestal. He would enjoy seeing the millions of customers who follow him.

> another company What other company offers a similar broadcast style approach for text content and doesn't require real name registration?

r/The_Donald or /pol?

Really though, Trump would fit right in on 4chan.

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