Twitter’s Dick Costolo on Ads, Censorship and Google (Video)

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo kicked off D: Dive Into Media with a bang on Monday, defending its ability to block tweets by country, rejecting the need for a stock offering and declaring 2012 to be the year of the Twitter election.

Costolo also threw out several stats, including the fact that the company now has 900 employees, and that there are now one billion tweets sent every three days.

Here are some of the video highlights: