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Evan Williams, Twitter Founder resigns as CEO - Mark - 05-10-2010
Evan Williams, Twitter Founder resigns as CEO
Evan Williams, co-founder of the social networking site Twitter is standing down from his position as chief executive. He has been the head of the company since 2008, apparently he's resigning to allow himself to focus on more ways of making Twitter profitable - he made this announcement on Twitter's blog, he said: Twitter needed to "meet its potential as a profitable company".
The current chief operating officer, Dick Costolo will take his place.
Although Twitter has grown dramatically over the past two years, with the user base shooting up to 160 million, compared to the three million users they had two years ago, Mr Williams isn't satisfied.
Mr Williams, ex-CEO of Twitter Wrote:"Growing big is not success in itself"
This announcement shows that Twitter as a company are about to become really serious about making money... something they have tiptoed around for some time.
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RE: Evan Williams, Twitter Founder resigns as CEO - Drumm - 10-04-2011
Yes. Thank You Mark.. :tongue
Hmm.. Ads will be appearing soon I think. Discreet ones, like those on facebook.
RE: Evan Williams, Twitter Founder resigns as CEO - Mark - 10-04-2011
Facebook has discreet ads? At the moment mcompute is ad-free.
RE: Evan Williams, Twitter Founder resigns as CEO - Drumm - 10-04-2011
What I meant is that they aren't these shitty flash ads that are all over the web.
RE: Evan Williams, Twitter Founder resigns as CEO - Mark - 10-04-2011
I use ad block plus and just add mcompute.co.uk as an exception. :tongue
RE: Evan Williams, Twitter Founder resigns as CEO - Drumm - 10-04-2011
As do I
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