Dorsey’s permanent at Twitter (and still at Square)
Mixed news from Twitter: Jack Dorsey has been named the company’s permanent CEO after three months as interim head, but the company…
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Why Twitter finally caved and returned to Google
The time is right
Following the release of its fourth-quarter earnings results, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo confirmed the company’s previously rumored new partnership with Google. Twitter…
Dick Costolo explains Twitter’s internal turmoil and executive resignations
Dick Costolo addressed concerns about internal company turmoil following several high profile employee resignations. He said he had to do “the right thing for the company,” even though he knew he would get “beat up for it.”
How to fix Twitter
If Twitter is broken, it shouldn’t be that hard to fix. Most of Twitter’s ailments are self-inflicted, and curable by a dose of focus. It must define and serve its audience properly, invest in data licensing, and forget about distracting product development.
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You’re seeing random Twitter favorites in your timeline because you keep refreshing your stream
When Twitter shows you favoriting activity as retweets, it’s because you unknowingly asked it to.
Twitter users are growing and the stock market is pleased
Twitter’s second quarter earnings pleased investors and the stock jumped 30 percent after the report came out.
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Twitter airs its unflattering diversity numbers when all eyes are on Facebook’s second quarter earnings
Twitter picked a rather opportune moment to publish its horrifying staff diversity statistics: During Facebook’s quarter two earnings release.
Twitter’s executive turmoil masks a deeper problem: Confusion over what Twitter wants to be
The departure of a couple of senior executives masks a much deeper problem at Twitter, and that is a lack of conviction about what exactly the product is supposed to do, who it is supposed to be for, or how to attract and keep them
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Twitter enables translation on tweets from high-profile users amid Egyptian turmoil
As the world looks to the news unfolding in Egypt right now, Twitter has made it easier than ever for English-speaking users to follow high-profile Egyptian accounts with a new translation feature.
Twitter is testing ways to replay live events, but can it separate signal from noise?
Could Twitter let you replay the big moments from important events if you missed them live? CEO Dick Costolo said the company is giving it a shot.
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No IPO hints as Twitter’s Costolo focuses on simplicity and security
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo thinks Apple is his spirit company, news organizations shouldn’t fear Twitter, and that engineers need room to experiment.
Twitter appoints Adam Messinger as company’s new CTO
Twitter has appointed a new CTO Adam Messinger, his Twitter bio indicates and AllThingsD first reported, showing that the company is moving forward in selecting top leadership.
Twitter CEO wish list — curation tools, tweet downloads, Tom Brady?
At ONA, Dick Costolo promised free curation tools to help newsrooms better present the flavor of news events. That’s all well and good, but can these tools–and the ability to download your own tweets — resolve growing tensions between Twitter users and Twitter itself?
Twitter gets splashy new look, iPad design
Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo announced a major redesign to the site that puts media and photographs front and center. The company also launched a new iPad design.
Twitter tries to make content discovery more personal
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said there’s still a gap that needs to be bridged between user awareness and user engagement on the platform. Twitter is working to address that gap with a new Discover Tab that will provide even more personalized content for users.
What the Quick Bar Affair Says About Twitter’s Future
A firestorm erupted this weekend over a new Twitter feature known as the “Quick Bar,” designed to show trending topics. The criticisms are a symptom of a larger problem for Twitter: it wants to be a business, and users still see it as a utility.
Will All That Money Make Twitter Too Serious?
After Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wrote on the company’s blog about its funding round from Kleiner Perkins — which values the company at $3.7 billion — the blog post was edited to take some of Costolo’s witticisms out. Is Twitter too rich to have fun?
@ CM Summit: Twitter Rolling Out Content ‘Attachments’ For Third Parties
Twitter COO Dick Costolo kicked off day two of Internet Week NY and the CM Summit by talking about what Twitter — which he says now has 190…
Twitter’s Costolo: Promoted Tweets And The Importance Of ‘Resonance’
With Twitter’s big announcement of how it plans to make money with Promoted Tweets out of the way, the micro-blogging service’s COO Dick Cos…
The Twitter Ad Model Revealed (What Were You Expecting, a Pony?)
In advance of his keynote at the Ad Age conference on Tuesday (not to mention Twitter’s own Chirp conference on Wednesday), COO Dick Costolo shared details of the company’s new ad platform, Promoted Tweets, with a couple of news outlets.
Updated: Industry Moves: Twitter Adds FeedBurner's Costolo As COO
Update: Twitter confirms that Costolo starts as COO next week. From a Twitter spokeswoman: “He’s a long time friend of Ev and Biz, so clearl…
