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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 cderwin »

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.

Before someone comments noting that the 1st amendment only restricts government and is not binding on twitter: please note that free speech is a valuable community principle for the same reasons it is a valuable legal principle. The "marketplace of ideas" is very real and very valuable and ought not be censored. Moreover, it is very hard to consider social networks in this day and age to be acting as anything other than an online proxy for public space, and it is no less wrong to censor speech on twitter than it is for campuses to censor speech.

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Post by minimaxir »

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #119
minimaxir wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's not irrelevant. 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 excite…

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Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by sanderjd »

minimaxir wrote: post #113
laser wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Personally, I found the comment interesting. I have always sort of wondered how prolific Twitter users actually handle the tedium of this, so it's interesting to see a link to one way they do so.

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Post by riffic »

throwanem wrote: post #111
riffic wrote: post #86

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advertising, same as any other company. edit: oh are you talking status quo, or an idealized business model?

Oh neat. So, in order to avoid having ads filtered at federation boundaries, thus delivering zero value to ad buyers and zero revenue to themselves, they now have a very strong incentive to come up with advertising only imperceptibly different from everything that is not advertising.

see edit, I assumed the question was referring to the status quo. A better model than advertising would be to charge those broadcasting their message to a large number of recipients (your CNNs and Trumps should be the ones paying to play).

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by angry-hacker »

danso wrote: post #71
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.

Frankly, I wouldn't mind if we saw an end to Trump's tweets. Not because of their content, but because of their impulsiveness, which is a behavior that Twitter's design encourages. Which is cool when it comes to celebrities and such in which it's fun to see what they think about sans filter. But the president of the United States speaks with the executive authority for an entire nation. It's questionable enough when…

You do realize he's not the one posting there? Neither was Obama. These accounts are ran by teams...

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by [deleted] »

Karunamon wrote: post #118
argonaut wrote: post #97

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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.

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Post by Benjammer »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #34

I'm sure it's simply arm chair quarter backing but I feel like Twitter could be turned around and I think almost anyone could do it as long as they can force them to take action and quickly. Honestly I feel like I shouldn't even post this because it's half on topic and half off topic. But I was thinking about some ideas I think Twitter should do and, well, screw it I'm curious to see what the HN community thinks of a…

Apart from layoffs, how do you see your other ideas adding business value and/or revenue to the company rather than just making the product better for end users?

Are you thinking about how Twitter could be a better product or a better business?

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by sulam »

throwawaybird9 wrote: post #112
sulam wrote: post #82

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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…

Those guys may have had the fancy titles but the real engineering leadership at Twitter was Raffi.

Depends on your org. Alex had just as much pull as Raffi, arguably more since he got the org he wanted eventually. (Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Raffi and Alex has the empathy of a gnat, but in terms of sheer influence it was Alex/Raffi and then everyone else).

Re: Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

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Post by OoTheNigerian »

minimaxir wrote: post #122
OoTheNigerian wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not irrelevant. 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 excite…

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You aren't the author.

I didn't read it as sarcastic and if people were talking about tweetstorms and I found out my tool was used to build it, I'm sure it is not irrelevant to point it out.

You would get my point if you tried building something and had it used.

It seems you have carried on with your monitoring behaviour from Techcrunch comment days.

You can downvote and go in peace but please quit your lecture.

Thanks.

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