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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 dexterdog »

dchuk wrote: post #78

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…

The interface can just show a more link after a certain number of characters. Then again, I never really got twitter from the publishing side as it's only a read-only thing for me.

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Post by untog »

dchuk wrote: post #78

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…

That would change the nature of Twitter a lot, though.

writers could write their content on Twitter and have it appear as standard blog posts on their own domains

That makes the posts sound very, very large. That's not what I want from Twitter - I want short, sharp posts that make one single point. 140 characters does feel like a meaningless limit, but IMO they'd still want to emphasise short content somehow.

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Post by usaphp »

dchuk wrote: post #78

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…

I strongly disagree, the only reason I am using Twitter and follow people I like is to quickly read their thoughts on current events if I wanted to read more of them I would have read their blogs instead

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Post by psykovsky »

austenallred wrote: post #35
psykovsky wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is that value coming from? Are they even profitable? Stock value means jack shit.

> Where is that value coming from? From the $2 Billion in revenue and the 74% YOY increase in revenue, mostly https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=...

Meaningless numbers without any profit to show for it.

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Post by kamilszybalski »

dchuk wrote: post #78

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…

I think this had something to do with the length of SMS messages and not splitting them. There are a plethora of 3rd party services that allow you to tweet 140+ characters.

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Post by staunch »

wyclif wrote: post #37
austenallred wrote: post #3

Having a founder and product visionary (Jack) in the driver's seat at Twitter is absolutely the right move. Sure, Jack has his quirks, and seems a little bit crazy and minimalistic, but that's exactly what makes him the right person for the job. Twitter is executing on its vision now just fine, but that's just the problem: There hasn't been any vision left in the company. No truly big moves have been made, and the pr…

The problem with this, as an early Twitter user (summer 2006), is that I don't really want Twitter to significantly change. The minimalism is a feature. It was SMS on the web. I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility, but that's impossible now because it's been "monetized."

Users don't want change unless it's really good change, then it's the best thing that can happen. Here's what Twitter used to look like: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/188430472 https://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/190576959

I remember those days too and the product is much better now. It could be much better still.

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Post by untog »

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.

Although it's a passion point in tech circles, allowing alternative clients is near the bottom of the list of issues Twitter needs to address. Plus it would make any platform changes and their ad system very challenging to successfully implement.

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Post by piquadrat »

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.

Mandatory promoted tweets for 3rd party clients maybe? I use a 3rd party android twitter client due to its superior UX compared to the official app, but I wouldn't mind getting served promoted tweets in that client at all.

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Post by blumkvist »

myth_buster wrote: post #72
[deleted] wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You can be good to your employees and bad for stockholders. One way to do this is to hand out bonuses instead of dividends. Agreed. But don't the employees have higher stakes running on the long term success of the company compared to investors who are known to be in for short term profit and hence can't the former be a better indicator? Eg: Mass employee exodus results in company going bust while the team can still…

Employees often have less business acumen then an old lady selling on the open market.

I find it amusing that people who can code think they can do anything and everything. Despite what you like to to believe, those MBAs do have value. Lots of it.

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