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

Kicking off the 2012 D: Dive Into Media conference, Twitter’s Dick Costolo.

Dick Costolo

CEO
Twitter, Inc

Before joining Twitter as its COO, Costolo was already knee-deep in start-up mulch. He was the co-founder and CEO of FeedBurner, a digital content syndication platform that was acquired by Google in 2007. At Google, he was Group Product Manager responsible for social media ads. Costolo spent most of the 90s in Chicago founding and running: SpyOnIt, a web page monitoring service, and Burning Door Networked Media, a web design and development consulting company. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Computer Science, but if he seems more comfortable on stage than your average comp sci guy, it's probably because he performed in multiple shows with Chicago's acclaimed Annoyance Theatre.

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Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (Or Closer Cooperation)

There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.
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Yahoo and Twitter Get New Communications Heads From PayPal and Google

Musical chairs in PR at Internet giants.
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QOTD: Stick to Pictures

I’m sorry for what I said on Twitter last night. No excuses.

Former OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter, apologizing after describing Shay Pierce, a former OMGPOP employee who declined to work for Zynga, as “the weakest one on the whole team.” Among Porter’s many critics was Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: “Wow, what a nitwit comment that was.”

Twitter’s Ad for Its Ads (Video)

Easy as cake — in theory. And if it actually works, a quietly big deal for Dick Costolo.
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Twitter’s Ad Sales Are Booming, Says Gawker

Of course, Gawker also calls Twitter the “World’s Worst Tech or Media Business.” Can’t win ’em all!
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: The Full Dive Into Media Interview (Video)

“We’re in the media business, but we’re not necessarily a media company.”
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A Super Social Bowl

You watched the game on the big screen, and you typed and read on a smaller one. Which is exactly what Twitter and Facebook were hoping for.
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Twitter’s Dick Costolo on Ads, Censorship and Google (Video)

Kicking off the 2012 D: Dive Into Media conference, Twitter’s Dick Costolo.
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Twitter CEO Says Board Changes “Not Some Ninja Move”

Dick Costolo, speaking at D: Dive Into Media, also rejects the notion that the company needs to follow Facebook in going public.
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2012 Is Going to Be the Twitter Election, Says Costolo

Speaking at D: Dive Into Media, Twitter’s CEO says that the service has turned an already quick news cycle into an instant one, pointing to last week’s State of the Union address.
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Twitter Redesigns to Be Simpler and Faster