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I'd love to hear how you think they make money in this world.
advertising, same as any other company. edit: oh are you talking status quo, or an idealized business model?
I don't think this is as big a deal as the Twitter departures earlier this year. Several years ago Adam Messinger was already more or less sidelined from the engineering organization when Chris Fry was made VP of Engineering (CTO does not imply the VP of Engineering reports to the CTO). Later Chris Fry would be replaced by Alex Roetter (thanks commenter below). After Roetter left, Messinger was put back in charge of…
It's a bigger deal than that because he was put back in charge of the engineering organization for real. That means that from when I started there to now, the engineering leadership has been: Mike Abbott Dick Costolo -> (Chris Fry, Adam Messinger, Mazen Rawashdeh) Chris Fry Alex Roetter Adam Messinger ??? Not as bad as product, but illustrative, and there were far more VP/Director changes in there along the way. In g…
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I know I might sound like a vim user, but tweetstorms are honestly one of my favourite parts of twitter. Maybe there could be a better UI for authoring and displaying them, but there's something I really enjoy about reading a story 140 characters at a time.
I've been saying this for a little while now: Twitter should really try to capitalize on Tweetstorms. What they don't seem to realize is that Tweetstorms enable Twitter to be a kind of inverse annotation platform. Most annotation platforms enable large chunks of text to be dissected by readers, but a Tweetstorm is the opposite: the author specifies the exact segmentation of the text as they release it, and each segme…
Here's this tweetstorm visualized with the tool: https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-staticfiles-25g9k/tvp.h...
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Your post implies they made the libraries you listed, but they certainly didn't make Mesos or most of those things.
I think Mesos is the only one from that list they didn't make, they were just an early adopter on that one
(edited above post to remove Mesos mention).
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's problem isn't just that they have to fix harassment, it's that they have to do it without touching social justice activism that sure looks similar to it from the outside, right down to the doxing, threats, and smears. Oh, and they'll get no sympathy for getting this wrong as the difference is apparently obvious... except that everyone defines it differently (usually based on who their friends are) and simpl…
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So, they have one product but multiple VPs of product? Sounds like some trimming was in order.
Facebook has multiple VPs of product. So does Google. This is common...
On the other hand, losing this many execs in this short of time almost never bodes well, which means their stock price is going to tumble even further without something drastic happening soon.
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Why are you getting downvoted? People seriously need to lighten up ;)
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The person spoke about him using a feature he thought Twitter should have. Tweetstorms.
From far away Nigeria (you may know it as Africa;)) we built something that filled the need and the head of product at twitter using it is the biggest endorsement one can get.
Of course, I could have chosen to be more elaborate in my comment and be like minimaxir but sometimes few words are better.
I am excited and i let it out.
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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?)