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Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Re: Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down

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Post by ytdht »

mpdehaan2 wrote: post #144

whoa, interesting. On one hand, I have ceased to see twitter evolve much at all over the last N years, much like I used to say of Flickr. I eventually left Flickr because I wasn't seeing improvements for photo sharing and browsing that I really wanted as a photographer. It's a legitimate problem that he needs to solve. I don't think twitter needs to be much different than what it is, because i'm addicted to it, but i…

If you think that Twitter is pretty much perfect for you, why would you want it to change at all? Change is not always good...

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Post by dave1619 »

mpdehaan2 wrote: post #144

whoa, interesting. On one hand, I have ceased to see twitter evolve much at all over the last N years, much like I used to say of Flickr. I eventually left Flickr because I wasn't seeing improvements for photo sharing and browsing that I really wanted as a photographer. It's a legitimate problem that he needs to solve. I don't think twitter needs to be much different than what it is, because i'm addicted to it, but i…

I tend to agree that Twitter hasn't evolved/progressed much over the past few to several years. I think they've got a lot of potential though. IMO they should have entered the personal messaging space and been one of the top players. They could have eventually link personal messaging with discussion around topics and Twitter as well.

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Post by camgunz »

coryrc wrote: post #148
binxbolling wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding was that almost all of that is due to the insane benefits and pension requirements placed on the USPS in 2006. Happy to be corrected if I'm offbase.

The same ones private corporations are required to follow.

The US doesn't require private corporations to offer a pension at all. If they do voluntarily, it's almost always a 401k. The USPS' pension funding forced on it by a "starve the beast" Congress is much different.

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Post by austenallred »

mindstab wrote: post #62
lancewiggs wrote: post #44

What he should do: 1: reopen the API up to everyone, guaranteeing access for 10 years. Let's the clients bloom. 2: reduce rhose costs. Insane. 3: That's it.

and they will make money how? their expenses sure will go up.

They make $2 Billion/year already

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Post by rconti »

binxbolling wrote: post #124
austenallred wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime 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_0…

My understanding was that almost all of that is due to the insane benefits and pension requirements placed on the USPS in 2006. Happy to be corrected if I'm offbase.

What's insane about the requirements? They actually have to pay for what they promised?

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Post by adventured »

binxbolling wrote: post #124
austenallred wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime 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_0…

My understanding was that almost all of that is due to the insane benefits and pension requirements placed on the USPS in 2006. Happy to be corrected if I'm offbase.

The reason that was put into place, is that if they don't fund those pensions now, there will be no ability to do so in the future - their business is evaporating.

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Post by fgcallari »

binxbolling wrote: post #124
austenallred wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime 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_0…

My understanding was that almost all of that is due to the insane benefits and pension requirements placed on the USPS in 2006. Happy to be corrected if I'm offbase.

You are correct, it was insane - no other corporation is required by law to act in that way: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/28/330524/postal-no...

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Post by nerfhammer »

rconti wrote: post #155
binxbolling wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding was that almost all of that is due to the insane benefits and pension requirements placed on the USPS in 2006. Happy to be corrected if I'm offbase.

What's insane about the requirements? They actually have to pay for what they promised?

They have to pre-pay 75 years worth, including future employees

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Post by wamatt »

kidcoach wrote: post #20
eroo wrote: post #15

Yesterday: "Twitter CEO Dick Costolo laughs off 'crazy' calls for his resignation"[0] [0] (warning: auto-play video on page) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-laughs-off...

I had 2 autoplay videos and 1 popup, ibtimes has really gone to shit.

uBlock is your friend

https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock#getting-started

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Post by nacs »

wamatt wrote: post #159
kidcoach wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had 2 autoplay videos and 1 popup, ibtimes has really gone to shit.

uBlock is your friend https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock#getting-started

I have ublock installed and the popup still happened.
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