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Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive

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Re: Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive

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Post by jay_kyburz »

abalone wrote: post #142
inthewoods wrote: post #113

I keep wondering if this is going to be like Marissa Mayer joining Yahoo - much fanfare, some movement, but at the end of the day she's been unable to significantly move the needle. I just wonder if Twitter fundamentally isn't as scalable an idea/product as Facebook et al. It's obviously Jack's job to make it that - but what if the basic form of Twitter just isn't as compelling, no matter how you change it or dress i…

Realtime news and straight-from-the-horse's mouth access to celebrities is fundamentally a good opportunity that no one does better than Twitter right now. The question is whether they'll have the decisiveness to make it a better experience for a broader audience without alienating the core that generates the best content.

I think this is key.

On Media Watch (Australia) last week they discussed how savvy politicians now use social to speak directly to the public, cutting the middle man out of the equation. The middle man being traditional news media.

I think facebook is less appropriate for this kind of celebrity broadcast.

I find it frustrating to watch twitter flail around because I can see this epic opportunity hanging right in front of them. I really hope they can take that small step and make twitter something truly epic.

Re: Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive

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Post by jay_kyburz »

dnr wrote: post #176
shampine wrote: post #143

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I think that was more common to hear as people didn't seem to understand @messages and #hashtags. So when they saw: > .@jack #awesome They didn't know what that meant. Now that hashtags and @ style messaging are just about everywhere, I don't think it is a valid theory.

As a non-twitter-using software engineer, when I land on a twitter page, I still find it fairly intimidating and requiring special knowledge. For example, why is there a dot before the @ in your example? (I actually know the answer to that because I looked it up once, but it's totally not obvious.) What's with all the slashes in numbered lists? Because of the character limit, people use a lot of abbreviations and sho…

I agree that the @ at the beginning or the @ in the middle is a problem.

here is my opinion Jack if you are reading.

Every tweet needs some extra field when you are creating them.

  * to: field like email. A list of people or "everybody"
  * body: 140 characters.
  * tags: relevant tags so that your tween can be found by non followers interested in a specific topic. 
  * url: seperate url so as not to use up your 140 chars. Nobody wants to use a link shortener.

Re: Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive

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Post by scrollaway »

hockley wrote: post #148
killwhitey wrote: post #117

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Then his job is find something else for Twitter to make. Facebook has launched a lot of experimental apps like Paper, Rooms, Slingshot, Messenger. And they bought Instagram which is very successful. Under Costolo Twitter bought vine and periscope, but they haven't tried to experiment with new app ideas internally.

If they went back to their roots as a messaging API for other apps, they would not have to build new apps. Become the messaging backbone for the Internet. That's plenty of scale to go after.

I hope they don't. The last thing we need is a proprietary solution for "the messaging backbone for the internet". =/

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Post by etr71115 »

skrish wrote: post #189
etr71115 wrote: post #121

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Jobs didn't run Pixar. He was a principal investor and Chairman of the Board, negotiating a few milestones like the sale to Disney, but most of his focus was on NeXT and then Apple. Ed Catmull and John Lasseter ran Pixar's day-to-day ops. Creativity, Inc. by Catmull covers all this. It paints a better portrait of Jobs than Isaacson's Jobs biography. Plus, you get to read about the history of computer graphics and Toy…

On a sidenote, I found Creativity Inc., to be a fantastic book about how to build a company. I find it very insightful. I love this particular chapter where he discusses about how you feel like you don't "belong" in that role of a leader within your own company, imagining that the leader is supposed to have some perceived aggressive characteristics of your ideal leader. But all along, you may have been the right pers…

I could not agree more.

Re: Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive

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Post by [deleted] »

uptown wrote: post #174
pratyushag wrote: post #145

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I believe if you have the domain name you should be able to get the twitter handle. You can always just submit for a trademark, that's easy and cheap.

I've never registered a trademark before. Is there anything more to it than paying the fee and filing the paperwork for a business that's not yet operational?

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Re: Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive

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Post by 100k »

mcphilip wrote: post #93
nreece wrote: post #2

Here's his announcement on Twitter, among other details: https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003190628872192

Pulling up that link in Safari on mobile really demonstrates how bad the UI/UX is. There is no obvious way to see anything other than the first tweet in the series: http://m.imgur.com/7JSETBc

Ha. Thanks for the note. I'm reading on Mobile Safari, so without it, I would have thought Dorsey's message was just a single, ambiguous tweet.

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Post by aianus »

phantarch wrote: post #181
duaneb wrote: post #173

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For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

I understand the significance of the poem, but if I'm going into Stride Rite to buy some new shoes for a baby, chances are I'm not going to want them to have been worn before.

Why? Small children have no concept of social signalling by having nice new things, it's wasted on them.

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Post by sjg007 »

untog wrote: post #187
hockley wrote: post #148

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If they went back to their roots as a messaging API for other apps, they would not have to build new apps. Become the messaging backbone for the Internet. That's plenty of scale to go after.

> Become the messaging backbone for the Internet. That's plenty of scale to go after. Where's the money in that, though?

In the data. Advertising, etc..

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Post by pconner »

ryandetzel wrote: post #32
codingdave wrote: post #11

Twitter does not need to gain new users - it needs to reactivate old users. The statistic I cannot get past is that they have lost one billion users. That is a much different problem than most companies are dealing with.

Twitter is not like Facebook or Instagram or What's App. Most of the daily users are not actually logged in users, they consume the information in other ways like Google searches, widgets on news articles or entertainment websites. Facebook and every other app don't have this ability, everything is locked up because of privacy settings so the only people that ever see it are the people you allow. So, even if you're n…

Instagram accounts aren't private by default, and posts can be embedded in other web pages (e.g. a lot of clickbait "journalism" does this), though it does not have a friendly logged-out interface like Twitter.
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