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Twitter Hits 250 Million Tweets Per Day
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has revealed an interesting milestone. Twitter is now hitting 250 million tweets per day. Twitter has gone from 90 million tweets per day in September 2010 to 100 million at the beginning of the year. Now Twitter is at 250 million, which is a 177% change.
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Photo Of Silicon Valley Tech Titans and President Obama
The White House has uploaded some images on Flickr of President Barack Obama’s meeting with the tech titans of Silicon Valley. This photo symbolizes how the meeting went. The meeting was about how these executives plan to support entrepreneurship, increase exports, and strengthen the economy. The executives in this picture includes:
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President Obama Meeting With Major Silicon Valley CEOs Today
President Barack Obama is making a trip to Silicon Valley today and is meeting with some major tech CEOs. The names of the executives that he is meeting was revealed by the L.A. Times. The meeting will be about supporting entrepreneurship, increasing exports, strengthening the economy, etc. Below is the list of people that he is meeting:
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Can Two Tech CEOs Have Breakfast Together Without A Buy-Out Rumor?
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was rumored to have had breakfast together in San Francisco earlier this week as reported by Forbes. “Could this mean Microsoft is interested in doing some sort of deal with, or even buying, Twitter?” said Forbes writer Victoria Barret. Yes, Twitter is the hot property that everybody wants a piece of right now. And yes, Microsoft attempted to buy out Facebook and Yahoo! to grow their web portfolio. Maybe Ballmer was in the area and wanted to talk to Costolo about how their Bing and Twitter partnership is going.
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Dick Costolo: “I Am Currently Trying To Define What Twitter’s Purpose Is In The Long Term.”
Dick Costolo was interviewed in the Telegraph UK where he discussed what his role as the newly appointed Twitter CEO is. When asked what the long term vision of Twitter is, Costolo said “I am working on clarity around that at the moment. I am currently trying to define what Twitter’s purpose is in the long term. We will be able to be more specific on that answer in the near future.”
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Dick Costolo Becomes New Twitter CEO
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has asked Dick Costolo to become CEO of the company. This way Williams can focus more on the product. Currently Twitter has 300 employees. There was about 20 employees two years ago when Williams took the CEO job at Twitter.
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Promoted Tweets Being Sold For $100,000 Each
Twitter is selling promoted tweets for $100,000 each and higher. However marketing companies are pondering whether the investment has been worth it. Currently advertising on Twitter is considered as an “experiment.” Best Buy and Pepsi tested out the ads already, but have not bought ads again and about 80% of the companies that bought an ad have not bought any more.
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Twitter Hires Adam Bain As President of Revenue
Micro-blogging company Twitter has hired Adam Bain to be the head of their revenues department. Adam Bain will be reporting to Twitter COO Dick Costolo.
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Twitter To Make Money From Contextual Ads
Twitter now has a revenue model. Aside from the real-time search deals that Twitter has with Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), the company will soon start to integrate contextual ads within their stream. The contextual ads are part of a program called Promoted Tweets. Ads will appear in streams where they are expected to be relevant. Some of the companies on board include Best Buy, Virgin America, Starbucks and Bravo.
“The idea behind Promoted Tweets is that we want to enhance the communications that companies are already having with customers on Twitter,” stated Twitter COO Dick Costolo. Twitter received 22.3 million unique visitors this past March. In March of the year before, the company hit 524,000 uniques. Twitter will measure the ads placed in the stream using the number of people that saw the post, number of people that replied to the post, and the number of people that clicked the links. [NYT]
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Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo Stepping Down From Google To Pursue New venture
Dick Costolo is the founder of Feedburner. After he graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Computer Science, he went three-for-three in co-founding start ups and selling them off.
The companies he found and sold off included Burning Door Networked Media which sold to DKA LLC. And then he co-founded Spyonit.com which sold to 724 Solutions. Finally he co-founded Feedburner which sold to Google for $100 million. Perhaps Costolo wants to go for a fourth.
Feedburner was based in Chicago when it first started out. After being acquired, the employees of Feedburner worked on several other projects within Google such as advertisements. The Feedburner service and user base was rolled into Google’s own RSS system. When working at Google, Costolo reported to Neal Mohan.
[via TechCrunch]
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