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Mike Arrington claims he was fired: "So @dickc was fired. My guess is @sacca knew about it before writing his recent open letters." https://twitter.com/arrington/status/609103779791683584
From an update to the article: [Update: On the conference call, Costolo said he initiated internal conversations about leaving at the end of last year, and that following discussions in Feburary and his decision to step down, Twitter decided to begin the CEO search. Costolo said he chose to leave now because he thought staying on through the CEO search would cause scrutiny to intensify. During the Q&A, Twitter execs…
From an update to the article: [Update: On the conference call, Costolo said he initiated internal conversations about leaving at the end of last year, and that following discussions in Feburary and his decision to step down, Twitter decided to begin the CEO search. Costolo said he chose to leave now because he thought staying on through the CEO search would cause scrutiny to intensify. During the Q&A, Twitter execs…
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Then you end up with the "postal service".
Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. If our "leaders" stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.
You might want to double check your info on that one. The US Postal Service lost $32 Billion over the past four years.
USPS losses:
* 2011: $5.1 Billion
* 2012: $15.9 Billion
* 2013: $5.5 Billion
* 2014: $5.5 Billion
2011/2012: http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/15/news/economy/postal-service-...
2013: https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_087....
2014: https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2014/pr14_059....
From an update to the article: [Update: On the conference call, Costolo said he initiated internal conversations about leaving at the end of last year, and that following discussions in Feburary and his decision to step down, Twitter decided to begin the CEO search. Costolo said he chose to leave now because he thought staying on through the CEO search would cause scrutiny to intensify. During the Q&A, Twitter execs…
On a related note, Jack is said to forgo compensation for his interim role at Twitter.[1] That should put to end any doubts about whether Jack's role is indeed truly interim and not a comeback. [1] Jack Dorsey to forgo salary to lead Twitter http://www.marketwatch.com/story/jack-dorsey-to-forgo-salary...
They said interim for a reason. If it doesn't work, they can say "this was the plan all along". If it does work, they can say "this was the plan all along".
Either way, he will be paid very well – they just haven't nailed down the exact details yet, as the contract specifically states.
From an update to the article: [Update: On the conference call, Costolo said he initiated internal conversations about leaving at the end of last year, and that following discussions in Feburary and his decision to step down, Twitter decided to begin the CEO search. Costolo said he chose to leave now because he thought staying on through the CEO search would cause scrutiny to intensify. During the Q&A, Twitter execs…
You've got it the other way around. A forceful push is very likely to lead to a huge severance package (because that's the cost of getting someone to go quietly and stay for the transition). So the fact that he doesn't get a severance package leads me to believe it was voluntary.
Given that the stock traded at all time lows, no severance was justified. https://www.google.com/finance?cid=32086821185414
From an update to the article: [Update: On the conference call, Costolo said he initiated internal conversations about leaving at the end of last year, and that following discussions in Feburary and his decision to step down, Twitter decided to begin the CEO search. Costolo said he chose to leave now because he thought staying on through the CEO search would cause scrutiny to intensify. During the Q&A, Twitter execs…
On a related note, Jack is said to forgo compensation for his interim role at Twitter.[1] That should put to end any doubts about whether Jack's role is indeed truly interim and not a comeback. [1] Jack Dorsey to forgo salary to lead Twitter http://www.marketwatch.com/story/jack-dorsey-to-forgo-salary...
How come Twitter doesn't lift the character limit on tweets? Then you could allow content writers to write a more coherent thought (IE not breaking it into a 20+ message tweet storm) and then normal length tweets could serve just as comments. Lifting the character limit could make Twitter a publishing powerhouse over night. With the right API support, writers could write their content on Twitter and have it appear as…
Just up the limit to what you need for a decent English paragraph and be done with it. Right now, you can't even write a complex sentence.
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Ruins the experience. Fake followers. Fake tweets. Just don't understand how it hasn't been fixed yet.
Out of curiosity, how would you fix it?
They will submit requests to have these taken down (as the State Department did to Youtube to take down Al-Alwaki's videos) - though currently Twitter is not very cooperative.
I do not know how Twitter would handle a problem like this itself.