Jack is now doing political activism. Against the administration.
This. Dorsey is destroying the product pandering to political interests.
Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
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#162I acknowledge that CEO is not an easy job, but in light of all the departures and drama, I honestly wonder if @jack really is the right person for the job?
Seems that the problems with product, PR, and investor relations got worse when he came back. How much rope will the board give him before he hangs himself?
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#163I 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…
Everyone I've met who was a techie there has been one of the best I've encountered. I know everyone here thinks Twitter is a fancy rails site with some Kafka in the back, or whatever, but they actually do have some tough problems to solve. Or did, once upon a time.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?)
Jesus Christ. Yes, perfectly reasonable.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook has multiple VPs of product. So does Google. This is common...
It is common when you have more than one product.
Twitter has more than one product.
Off the top of my head:
Twitter App- Web, IOS, Android, Other
Twitter API
Twitter Firehose
Twitter Advertising
Twitter Analytics
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook has multiple VPs of product. So does Google. This is common...
Facebook and Google aren't financially struggling. There's something to be said for "too many chefs" when your main issue is doing something, anything to make some cash. Perhaps some downsizing was truly in order. 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.
> Facebook and Google aren't financially struggling.
Because advertising on Facebook and Google pays off.
Twitter, afaik, has struggled to be a relevant ad platform.
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#167Earlier 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.
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.
Same. My thought for this, and I wanted to build a media industry specific alternative to Twitter using it, was to allow a tweet/story to have depth/paging.
So, imagine your timeline is a regular, vertical stream. But any tweet could have paging on the horizontal axis, and you'd hit next or swipe to continue reading. Anyone browsing could read the opening tweet and ignore the rest if they wanted. Subsequent tweets within the first could have a video, image gallery, etc. Analytics would show the writer how many people delved how far into the content.
So, for a sports story, some people might scroll past, or read the first couple of sentences, but a strong fan would read every detail down through the analysis and stats.
Not sure why they haven't tried this. They could supplant some news that currently exists as links outside of the app.
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#168Twitter can make money, all it has to do is reduce its operational costs first. Then launch new products to grow. Twitter isn't going to become the new ad-sense or Facebook if it isn't a platform at first place. And you don't become a platform if your product isn't relevant to a lot of people. People use Google for search. People use Facebook to connect with friends and family. Who needs a Twitter account aside from…
i would totally pay a few dollars a month for an ad free experience on twitter
Honestly, I was going to say that didn't square with their valuation per user, but I hadn't realized that it was less than $50/active user now. At $3.95/mo it appears to make sense at their current valuation / profit margin (admittedly very back of envelope)
edit: before anyone notes it, I'm just thinking about offering it and the relative value of each on a per user basis vs ads. Yes, it would churn their userbase out of existence.
Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
#169Twitter can make money, all it has to do is reduce its operational costs first. Then launch new products to grow. Twitter isn't going to become the new ad-sense or Facebook if it isn't a platform at first place. And you don't become a platform if your product isn't relevant to a lot of people. People use Google for search. People use Facebook to connect with friends and family. Who needs a Twitter account aside from…
What twitter SHOULD have done, and should probably re-consider, is leave the API open, but charge a fee to utilize it at scale. Let startups come up with creative new uses for your platform, and if they get traction - acquire them. You print money and find an easy target for growth.
Twitter's problem is their continued refusal to recognize themselves as a platform. It's probably too late at this point, but I don't think they have anything to lose.