Twitter's transformation from startup to power player has hit its rocky adolescent stage. In the past six months, more than a dozen high-level employees have departed. The sudden exodus set Silicon Valley chattering: What's going on at Twitter?
Three behind-the-scenes power players have left Twitter, the latest in a series of departures that are reshaping the micro-messaging site.
Twitter's co-founders announced this week that they are throwing their money and support behind a new app called Lift, which, according to a blog post that sounds like it was written by "Lost's" Dharma Initiative, is "an interesting new application for unlocking human potential through positive reinforcement."
Three of Twitter's key developers-- Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman -- are launching a new venture.
Now that the Anthony Weiner Twitter meltdown has pretty much played out, I'm surprised that there hasn't been much discussion of the butterfly wing-flap that brought him down: Twitter's rules of engagement when it comes to "following."
Twitter's transition from "cultural force" to "actual moneymaking business" isn't going smoothly. A management shift is in the works, with one of the site's creators ramping up his involvement and another quietly stepping away.
Five years ago today, Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey blasted off the very first tweet. What began as an experiment in "microblogging" -- no more than 140 characters, please -- has become a cultural landmark.
Call it the Mad Men effect: retro fashions, debonair dinner parties and especially classic drinks -- like bourbon -- are back with a vengeance.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams closed the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco with a candid talk late Wednesday, in which he said the microblogging service has plans for a profitable future.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams is stepping down as the company's CEO, with COO Dick Costolo taking over as the company's new chief executive.
In March, Twitter CEO Evan Williams first unveiled @Anywhere, a new platform aimed at news and media outlets to knit Twitter more deeply into their own sites. After all, Twitter has become more or less synonymous with real-time, breaking news -- so it seems like any publisher would want to work @Anywhere into its code to put the latest, freshest information front-and-center. Right?
The social networking site turns to making money by targeting its 22-million users with featured ads.
You're going to be seeing search ads on Twitter after all.
Last fall, Twitter CEO Evan Williams tweeted "Buy my loft...It's a steal!" at the asking price of $1.5 million. The listing went viral, and a buyer recently scored the San Francisco penthouse ... for $1.25 million.
Just two days after comments by Twitter investor Fred Wilson made third-party Twitter developers nervous about what the company might do, those fears have become reality: The company announced Friday that it has acquired Atebits, the maker of Tweetie, one of the top Twitter apps for the iPhone. According to a post by co-founder and CEO Evan Williams on the Twitter blog, the app will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and will now be free (previously, the pro version of Tweetie cost $2.99 to download). Developer Loren Brichter said on his blog that he is joining Twitter's mobile team and will be developing Tweetie for the iPad.
For techies, the South by Southwest Interactive festival produces a firehose of information.
Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced a product Monday that will further integrate Twitter feeds into other Web sites.
The great and good from the world of social media met Wednesday at Davos and agreed their medium still hasn't reached its full potential, with one speaker joking that the really cool stuff wouldn't happen "until we're dead."
Evan Williams, CEO of Web sensation Twitter, has to defend over and over why his three-year-old company isn't making money yet, despite having raised more than $150 million in venture capital.
Ask Evan Williams whether Twitter ought to be trying harder to identify ways to make money, and the founder of the short-burst messaging network just laughs.
Late Thursday afternoon Twitter CEO Evan Williams tweeted "Buy my loft...It's a steal!" And with that, the listing went viral.
The recent hacking of a Twitter employee's personal e-mail account is raising questions about the security of storing personal information and business data on the Internet.
Here's how scary the times are in the technology industry: Nobody, not even the visionary, congenitally optimistic smartypants who invent the technological future, has a clue about where we're going next.
Last summer, well after Twitter had become the buzz of the New York and San Francisco Web crowds but months before its current moment at the apogee of Internet hype, I visited the startup at its hip South of Market offices and wrote a feature on the company in Fortune. Its title, "The true meaning of Twitter," now feels like a quaint moment in time when the very definition of the company's name, let alone how you use its product, needed explaining. Twitter had raised $22 million back then, had about 3 million users and was hot.
Naval Ravikant is a classic Silicon Valley entrepreneur: He never stops moving. In the past decade, he's helped launch four companies, including consumer reviews site Epinions, and invested in many...
Fortune: A Blog's Lifeupdated: Mon Jun 24 2002 00:01:00
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