2 posts and columns on Tavis Smiley

Voices

Twitter: "You Are Not a Target Until You Become Popular"

in News on August 13, 2009 at 9:01 am PT

Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, called the service’s recent attacks a sign of its significance in a PBS interview that airs Thursday. “You are not a target until you become popular,” he said, after PBS’s Tavis Smiley commented that the denial-of-service attacks were a “backhanded compliment.”

"Get-Out-of-Our" Biz Stone Talks Twitter Attacks on "Tavis Smiley"

in News on August 12, 2009 at 11:33 am PT

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone can be seen tomorrow night in an interview with Tavis Smiley on his PBS show, talking about the denial-of-service attacks on the hot microblogging service recently. In the interview, noting that Twitter had spent 2008 scaling up its platform to deal with its exploding popularity, Stone said the San Francisco-based start-up was now trying to get up to speed on malicious attackers.
7144