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.

Posts With Dick Costolo

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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Costolo: Twitter Isn’t Looking to Censor Anyone

Twitter’s chief says the company’s new ability to block tweets for a particular country is about censoring content for fewer people, not more.
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: We’re Not a Media Company. We’re in the Media Business.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talks about Google, Facebook, censorship, and copyright at our D: Dive Into Media conference in Dana Point, Calif.
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Watch: Twitter’s Cheeky Infomercial to Recruit Job Applicants

In an industry full of earnest nerds, Twitter hopes workplace humor is a selling point.
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Blackouts Are for Wikipedia

@digiphile @jayrosen_nyu that’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

Dick Costolo, via Twitter, in response to a tweet by Alex Howard wondering whether Twitter would participate in Wikipedia’s Jan. 18 SOPA blackout

Twitter CEO Costolo in 140 Characters or Less: Dude’s About to Wipe Out

Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learnin’ how.
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Twitter Redesigns to Be Simpler and Faster

Bill Simmons Knows How to Fix Twitter