Friday, June 12, 2015

Memo to Twitter's next CEO: Save our service from the meddlers

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Dear new CEO of Twitter,

Congratulations on your ascension to one of the most high-pressure and contentious jobs in tech. If you're reading this, it means you made it through the gauntlet of three former CEOs and Twitter board members with a history of butting heads — Ev Williams, your predecessor Dick Costolo, and your interim predecessor Jack Dorsey. (It also means you were impressive enough to prevent Dorsey pulling a Steve Jobs by making his interim title permanent.)

You have also run the gauntlet, and will no doubt continue to run the gauntlet, of well-intentioned and passionate Twitter-using big shots telling you how to fix Twitter. Keeping track of these opinions could be a full-time job in itself, and we're not just talking about the 8,500-word Chris Sacca screed Read more...

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