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Twitter’s New “Quality Filter” Starts Rolling Out To Verified iOS Users
Twitter can be a cesspool of bullying, which CEO Dick Costolo admitted in an internal memo has cost the microblogging platform users. Over the past few months, however, the company…
Twitter Latest To Face Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
A former Twitter engineer has filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against her ex-employer, alleging that promotion opportunities are denied to women because of arbitrary promotion policies within Twitter that unlawfully…
Twitter Confirms Google Firehose Deal To Target Logged Out Users
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo today confirmed that Twitter has signed a firehose deal with Google, which will bring tweets back into Google searches, more eyeballs to those tweets — and…
Twitter’s CEO Will Respond To Whether He’s High Once He Finishes These Doritos
Peter Thiel thinks Twitter is more 420 than 140-characters. In a CNBC interview today, the famous Facebook investor bashed its competitor saying “Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a…
Apple’s Phil Schiller Douses Himself In Ice Water, Challenges Tim Cook And Robin To Follow Suit
Apple SVP Phil Schiller has joined the growing ranks of tech luminaries taking the ice bucket challenge, which involves dumping a bucket of ice water over your head in order…
Twitter CEO Says He Has No Idea How Many Users Opt Out Of Ads
Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, says that it’s easy enough for consumers to opt out of tailored ads on Twitter, but he does not know how many actually go…
Dick Costolo Admits Twitter May Be Confusing To Some
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has been doing the interview rounds, with Matt Lauer of the Today Show getting his turn today. As befitting the mass-market appeal of the morning TV…
As IPO Nears, Twitter CEO Says “We Think Of Revenue Like Oxygen”
As Twitter nears its IPO, CEO Dick Costolo seemingly refuses to focus on the money. “We think of revenue like oxygen. Essential to life but not the first thing you…
Twitter Doesn’t Want To Become A Media Company, But Will Partner With Them, CEO Dick Costolo Says
It’s been a big year for Twitter, as the company has been aggressively trying to grow its ads business with broadcasters. It’s doing that by partnering with big media companies…
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Resigns As Director Of Twitter U.K. After TweetDeck Dissolves As Standalone Business
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has quit his position as a U.K. director of the company, days after Twitter subsidiary Tweetdeck was dissolved as a separate U.K. business by business registrar…
Dick Costolo: “The Biggest Misconception About Twitter Is That You Have To Tweet To Use Twitter”
During a fireside chat at Federated Media’s San Francisco headquarters, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sat down to talk with John Battelle in the warmup for Battelle’s first ever OpenCoSF event…
Coming Soon (Well, Maybe): All Those Tweets You Wrote
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told The New York Times that users will soon be able to access and download all of their old tweets. Twitter currently only lets users browse…
Twitter Closing Its $400M Secondary Offering Tomorrow
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo confirmed its first $400 million tranche of a $800 million Series G this morning, saying that the company has just closed “more money than I’ve ever…
Twitter Ads: "The Perfect Wet Dream of Every Marketer." So Why Are There Only 600 Advertisers?
Dick Costolo just wrapped up his keynote at All Things D. It wasn’t livestreamed, so for those of you who missed out, there were some interesting tidbits about user numbers,…
Twitter: Consider This Your Intervention.
This is the post I haven’t wanted to write for weeks. This is the post no one wants to write. No one wants to say Twitter is in trouble. That’s…
What Scares Twitter CEO Dick Costolo? Foreigners. (Well, Scaling For Them.)
Tonight at our Crunchies Awards in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage with our own Michael Arrington. The topic of discussion? Well, it was sort of all…
Evan Williams, Master of the Privacy Game
I’m not talking about the privacy of Twitter’s millions of users- who they follow, what they retweet and the inner-sanctum of their DMs. I’m talking about the privacy of Evan…
Evan Williams And Dick Costolo: New Twitter Triggered CEO Change
As you may have heard by now, Twitter has a new CEO. Former COO Dick Costolo is taking over from Evan Williams as the head of the company. A few…
Dick Costolo: Mission Accomplished
“First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power.” That was Dick Costolo on September 13, 2009. Today, just over one year later, Costolo has done…
Dick Costolo Takes Twitter CEO Role So Evan Williams Can Focus On Product
Twitter COO Dick Costolo has just taken over as CEO of Twitter from current CEO and co-founder Evan Williams, Twitter confirmed today. In a post on the matter, Williams writes…
Costolo: Twitter Now Has 190 Million Users Tweeting 65 Million Times A Day
Twitter COO Dick Costolo offered some updated stats at the Conversational Media Summit today in New York City. Twitter is now attracting 190 million visitors per month and generating 65…
TC50 Backstage: Why Dick Costolo Joined Twitter and the Magic Acquisition Number
It’s 5 p.m. and we’re in the homestretch! The experts and the Twitterers seem to be less impressed with the companies this afternoon than the ones this morning. That or…
TC50: Twitter COO Dick Costolo Talks About His Newest "Challenge"
During a break at TechCrunch50, Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington drilled new Twitter COO Dick Costolo on his new job, why he took the position and what he’s working on.…