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Dave Winer mocked up how a fat tweet could look and I think he has it right: http://scripting.com/2015/10/02/whatWouldAFatTweetLookLike.h... Obviously, they've thought of this internally too. I wonder what the point of the 140 character limit is today (I think it made sense originally).
More context. http://scripting.com/2015/10/05/congatsToJack.html Dave
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again with this? jobs was never ceo of pixar...
Hm, Pixar wiki says this: Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was one of the three founding fathers of Pixar Animation Studios. A business magnate and inventor, he was the former CEO of Apple Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios.
"Mr. Jobs is a co-founder of Pixar and has served as its Chairman since March 1991, as its Chief Executive Officer since February 1986 and in the Office of the President since February 1995. He has been a director of Pixar since February 1986 and served as Chairman from February 1986 to November 1988."
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> any competent web developer could make A non-scaling Twitter in an afternoon I wish people would stop claiming how they could clone a social media app in an afternoon / weekend.
Its a credible claim. Social media apps are a fairly basic kind of CRUD app, and if you forego the complex layers of privacy settings and permissions, monetization schemes, and scalability issues you end up with what amounts to a weekend project for an experienced developer. Now, social media apps are worthless without the aforementioned features that would have to be omitted to get it done in a weekend, so obviously…
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I'm sort of unsure of this generally. It's certainly changed. My examples are: The gossip and snark of say Startup L Jackson vs the gossip and snark of a valleywag post. IRC backchannels during conferences versus a Tweet Wall.
Those aren't good counterarguments in favor of Twitter. Valleywag is dead because of reasons unrelated to the death of media (and I genuinely miss it). IRC backchannels are dead because IRC is dead .
I assure you, it is not.
"Twitter Feels Compelled to Point Out That Twitter CEO Is a Full-Time Job" https://recode.net/2015/06/22/twitter-feels-compelled-to-poi...
Here's his announcement on Twitter, among other details: https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003190628872192
I still think it's impossible to run two companies that both require so much attention, given their stage. Yes Jobs had Apple and Pixar, and Musk has Tesla and SpaceX. But both Pixar and SpaceX don't really require day-to-day CEO attention, they follow long term plans (movies, rockets). That's really different from Square and Twitter, which are both, in their own ways, in a kind of trouble. I'd love to be proven wron…
People are worried that Jack will be too busy between Twitter and Square, but what they don't know is that the dude's been completely spaced out for the last 4 years, making the same motivational presentation about his Dad's pizza shop to anyone that will listen. Nobody at Twitter talks to Jack anymore, even the most Senior people.
There was a great article a while back [on founding and rise of Twitter and Dorsey's bio] that did not paint him in a good light: "All is fair in love and Twitter" [0] As one former Twitter employee has said, “The greatest product Jack Dorsey ever made was Jack Dorsey.” [0] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/all-is-fair-in-lo...
http://recode.net/2015/10/02/why-jack-dorsey-is-ready-to-sav...
Good or bad, remember it's all PR.
People are worried that Jack will be too busy between Twitter and Square, but what they don't know is that the dude's been completely spaced out for the last 4 years, making the same motivational presentation about his Dad's pizza shop to anyone that will listen. Nobody at Twitter talks to Jack anymore, even the most Senior people.
[citation needed]. Seriously though, are you an employee at Twitter or Square, or are you basing this statement on the fact that you (presumably someone who doesn't see what's going on within Twitter and Square) only see Jack in interviews, and he tells the same story? I mean, I'm by no means a big time CEO, but the only contact people outside my company have with what's going on internally are interviews. And when I…