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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 fjdlwlv »

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.

Donald Trump is making Twitter a key part of a massive tragic farce befalling the USA in the world. Yeah, it's publicity, and likely some money, but it's a toxic horror show.

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Post by fjdlwlv »

josh_carterPDX wrote: post #26

Twitter is a business model that will be studied for years IMHO. No clear path to revenue, viral adoption, and very little product development away from its core competencies. I use Twitter often, but it has always seemed like a platform most useful if you have something to promote. One big flaw has been trying to find value to ordinary users who want to do something beyond typing into an echo chamber. If Twitter goe…

Most ordinary users love the echo chamber. That's the whole point of it.

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Post by morgante »

tyingq wrote: post #180
mathattack wrote: post #176

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It's just a title, and titles are free. If you want to see a lot of VPs, go visit your friendly neighborhood bank. :-)

Outside of banks, a VP title usually means "company officer", and usually comes with perks and legal changes that do cost something.

Nope. I've been a VP without being an officer.

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Post by fjdlwlv »

throwyawa62134 wrote: post #101

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 getti…

Join a hot startup that is growing, and rise the ranks.

Or don't try to be the 1% of the 1% -- you don't seem cutthroat enough.

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Post by redthrowaway »

makomk wrote: post #155
angry-hacker wrote: post #117

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Isn't the platform just the best medium for harassing and trolling? What else can you do with 140 chars? Have you ever heard about good tweets? It's always negativity.

Twitter's popular with journalists for some reason, most likely because it's an easy way to find potential stories and promote their work. This is probably part of the problem - it means that when ordinary users are nasty to them or their friends it's personal, and the same when they or their friends get their accounts suspended.

And twitter being popular with journalists makes it a fantastic platform for news junkies like myself. But that's mostly a one-way street.

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Post by mwpmaybe »

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

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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!!

It's a great tool, but I have one request: the slash line of the last tweet should ideally indicate how many total there were in the storm. For example, the friendly howto on your site should end with "6/6 Share and have fun. It's FREE!" This gives the individual tweet context when someone shares/quotes/screenshots it and it's being passed around: you know where the tweetstorm ends (instead of having to scroll down and look for a non-existent 7/ tweet).

Actually, since you're queuing up all the tweets to post them in one go, it should be feasible to add the out-of count to every tweet in the storm! That would be neat. But the last tweet should have it by convention.

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Post by mwpmaybe »

scholia wrote: post #185
ryanSrich wrote: post #175

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I'm a designer and I agree. The one quick improvement Twitter could make to the tweetstorm is to automatically (or giving the option to) remove the users handle when replaying to themselves when initiating the storm.

You can already reply to yourself and Your handle doesn't appear, does it? At least, it doesn't if I use the web interface. Otherwise, this pic will give you a good idea of the changes Twitter is making to the tweet structure... http://www.insider.gr/sites/default/files/57e01f4edd08956b5e...

Even if it does appear, you can simply remove it and Twitter will preserve the reply/threading regardless.

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Post by wheelerwj »

mathattack wrote: post #176
mynameishere wrote: post #94

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So, they have one product but multiple VPs of product? Sounds like some trimming was in order.

It's just a title, and titles are free. If you want to see a lot of VPs, go visit your friendly neighborhood bank. :-)

What neighborhood do you work in?
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