9 posts and columns on Michael Abbott

Exclusive: Twitter’s VP Engineering Mike Abbott Departs

in News on October 13, 2011 at 5:49 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, Twitter VP of Engineering Mike Abbott has left the company. He is apparently interested in doing more investing.
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Nearly Half of Tweets Originate From Mobile, Says Twitter Engineering Head

in Social on September 27, 2011 at 12:12 pm PT

Forty-five percent of Twitter’s 230 million tweets per day originate from mobile devices, according to Michael Abbott, Twitter’s VP of engineering.
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Twitter Looks to Rebuild its Mobile Experience, Hints at New Developer Opportunities

in Mobile on April 25, 2011 at 5:19 pm PT

Speaking at a conference on Monday, Twitter engineering VP Michael Abbott says that after spending last year trying to improve overall reliability, one of this year’s main thrusts will be improving its various mobile applications. Abbott also hinted that the company plans to offer third parties new ways to work within Twitter and not just by developing on top of the microblogging service.

Twitter Brags of Successful Data Center Migration

in Social on March 21, 2011 at 3:30 pm PT

Twitter, after years of fighting the Fail Whale, has recently made major changes under the hood to ensure its messaging service will stay online. Its engineering and operations teams coordinated a massive effort starting last September to migrate Twitter not once, but twice, shifting 20 TB of tweets and live traffic-serving from a first data center to a second testing center to a third “final nesting ground.”

Hearsay Brings Compliance to Social Media

in Social on February 3, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Hearsay Labs today launched a social media platform for companies that have both corporate brands and local representatives, with existing customers such as Farmers Insurance, State Farm and 24 Hour Fitness.

Twitter's COO Dick Costolo Talks About Management, Monetization and IPO Cravings!

in News on August 18, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown headed to the well-appointed downtown San Francisco HQ of Twitter as part of a renewed quest that I have dubbed “Meet the Twits.” No, really! Since Twitter has been on a significant hiring spree for all kinds of execs and staffers–it now has almost 250 employees–I have been in need of some serious meeting and greeting to see what’s going on there at the microblogging kingpin. First stop: COO Dick Costolo.

RadioShack Dumping Palm? [UPDATED]

in News on April 19, 2010 at 6:15 am PT

For Palm, April is indeed proving to be the cruelest month. It began with reports that the company has put itself up for sale and continued with news of the departure of software chief Michael Abbott. Now comes another ugly development: RadioShack appears to be dumping the company’s smartphone line.

The Palm Anti-Brain-Drain Filings: Collect the Entire Set!

in News on April 17, 2010 at 12:31 am PT

As short as the following filings from Palm yesterday are, they say a lot about the current forecast for the troubled handset maker, which is reportedly seeking a buyer: Cloudy with a definite chance of talent exodus. Here’s Palm’s attempt to stanch the flood.

Pre-Diculous, Redux

in News on April 2, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

Palm’s Michael Abbott delivered more than just the keyonote at Web 2.0 Expo. But not that much more. Absent from his remarks Wednesday evening was any news about the price of Palm’s forthcoming Pre handset or a hard-and-fast release date–two bits of information the industry has been pining for since the device was first announced in January.
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