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Gabriel Stricker Returns To Google To Lead Policy And Communications For Fiber
During all of Twitter’s changes this year, one move stuck out as quite significant…its Chief Communications Officer Gabriel Stricker announced that he was leaving the company. A “shi
Dick Costolo Joins The Patreon Board
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has joined the Patreon Board of Directors, a move that aims to bring operational skills to the funding site. Patreon allows creators – podcasters, artists, gamers
The Nest Is Being Robbed
Another day, another Tweetstorm by Chris Sacca about Twitter's CEO situation. His tune is the same, with the volume turned up ever so slightly. Most importantly, the signal he's sending out is very si
The Three Qualities Twitter’s Next CEO Must Have
Perhaps you've heard there's a job opening over at Twitter. The blue bird is looking for its next CEO after longtime leader and all-around good guy Dick Costolo decided to step down after a successful
13 People Who Could Be Twitter’s Next CEO
So far we’ve heard the board is looking for someone who can focus solely on Twitter (and not some other *cough Square) company, is a heavy tweeter, and gets the product. There’s also signi
Twitter Board Says It Will Only Consider CEO Candidates “Willing To Make A Full-Time Commitment To Twitter”
Twitter’s board of directors gave a brief update to its search for a new CEO, saying it would only consider candidates “who are in a position to make a full-time commitment to Twitter.R
Dick Costolo Dances Around The Question Of Who Will Lead Twitter Next
Dick Costolo stepped down as Twitter’s CEO last week, and since then theories about who will lead Twitter next have flown throughout the Internet. Costolo, on stage at the Bloomberg Tech confere
Costolo Says Twitter’s Future Is More Curation, Relevance And Media
Onstage at Code in Southern California this morning, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo fielded questions about whether he'd be keeping his job in the face of outside criticism and angst over the rate of user g
Twitter Makes Tweaks To Limit Abuse And Abusers
Twitter has today announced some product and policy changes aimed at better tackling violent threats and abuse on its platform. The problem of the mainstream social network being misappropriated as an
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 has taken several m
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 Tw
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 hopefully more cli
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 lot of
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 to raise awareness and mon
Twitter CEO Says He Has No Idea How Many Users Opt Out Of Ads
Dick Costolo, the CEO of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.co">Twitter</a>, says that it's easy enough for consumers to opt out of tailored ads on Twitter, but he does not know how many actu
Dick Costolo Admits Twitter May Be Confusing To Some
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has been <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pandomonthly-presents-a-fireside-chat-with-dick-costolo-tickets-9526942341">doing</a> the interview <a target="_
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 think about in the morning," he told
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 for services like TV ad
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 Companies Hous
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 <a target="_blank" href="ht