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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 throwyawa62134 »

A lot of Twitter's management in product/engineering seems to be from a very particular demographic. Graduated Stanford in early 2000s and quickly rose up the ladder in Google -- Alex Roetter, Josh McFarland, Keith Coleman.

Aside from being what I assume to be exceptionally talented individuals, what do you guys think separates these people from their peers to make it to the VP level so quickly?

As someone just getting started in my career, what steps can I take to put myself in a position to grow so quickly?

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

#102

Post by wyck »

There is this thing called the foundation of America and it centres on what's called the 1st amendment. If you think twitter or any social platform should interfere with that and somehow grants him a platform to destroy the world then I suggest you re-evaluate your stance, stop over reacting like a 15 year old, and pick up a copy of 1984.

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

#103

Post by m-p-3 »

sulam wrote: post #85
riffic wrote: post #33

Twitter's failure is a failure to embrace an open web. The next CTO at Twitter should take a deep hard look at decentralization, protocols such as OStatus, and how to provide an open platform (like email) not a walled garden. Say one manages a government agency or any other large organization -- Why the heck would they put all eggs into a provider's basket rather than set up their own GNU social infrastructure? Does…

I'd love to hear how you think they make money in this world.

The didn't apparently.

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

#104

Post by laser »

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #38
johns wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

FWIW, he used our product http://writerack.com to do his Tweetstorm. I feel great!!

Why are you getting downvoted? People seriously need to lighten up ;)

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

#105

Post by zelias »

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.

Friday, January 20, 2017 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump, as his first act in office, announces plans to nationalize ailing tech giant Twitter so that it may forever remain the communication channel that "helps keep America great."

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by throwanem »

popcorncolonel wrote: post #91
user5994461 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

You suggest they lay off 90% of their employees?

No, just a hair over three quarters. Anyone can see that's perfectly reasonable.

(...he said, not realizing it was on the close order of what someone else here is advocating. Whence comes the idea that Twitter is overpopulated? Do we hear it from current or ex-Twitter-ers?)

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

#107

Post by fullshark »

wyck wrote: post #102

There is this thing called the foundation of America and it centres on what's called the 1st amendment. If you think twitter or any social platform should interfere with that and somehow grants him a platform to destroy the world then I suggest you re-evaluate your stance, stop over reacting like a 15 year old, and pick up a copy of 1984.

I disagree with SapphireSun but Twitter isn't the gov't.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by trhway »

sandworm101 wrote: post #36
dopamean wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Judging by the amount of noise I've heard recently on this topic you may be the only person who like that.

It's cute. It's part of the medium. Books must have pages. Tweetstorms must have 140char tweets.

>Tweetstorms must have 140char tweets.

seems to be matching the pacing of a graphic novel.

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by awa »

brilliantcode wrote: post #74

when will we see the same for Facebook? If Twitter falls then it's a shift in investor's attitude towards "should make lots of money at unknown time down the road". Money today is more valuable than money tomorrow. Tech seems to have been a curious exception as it was in the 2000 bubble.

If you look at the financials, FB is making a chunk of money already.
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