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Margit Wennmachers: Fact-gathering takes time, conflicting with Twitter's real-time demands
“The problem with crises, and the problem with facts, is they weren't built for Twitter. Facts tend to take time.”
Native Twitter video playback is ESPN's fastest-growing video segment
“Fastest growing part of our video business is, you know, again, frictionless, one click video play within the Twitter feed.”
Hoover: Product Hunt would not be successful without email and Twitter
“And oftentimes people think that you can just build a good product and a good experience. But I believe product wouldn't be successful without email and without Twitter because people would come to the site and they wouldn't remember.”
Zuegel: Web2 OAuth restricts developers through centralized platform gatekeeping
“And it doesn't give you all the information that you could possibly want because it's dependent on Google and Facebook and Twitter and so on, ah, to give you the information that they're willing to give, which is pretty limited.”
Zuegel: Crypto networks allow platforms to internalize third-party developer value
“If it were a crypto network, they'd be able to capture it.”
Srinivasan: Typical Twitter audience engagement is only 0.1% to 0.2%
“If you have a million followers to have a thousand or 2000 likes, it's actually pretty good on the order of .1% to .2% are actually engaging with it.”
Costolo: Twitter took seven years to hit $16, one day to $47
“So we're doing our IPO for Twitter in November, 2013, and it took us like seven years to get to 16 dollars a share. And then it took us Two weeks to get to 26 dollars a share, and then a day to get to 47 dollars a share.”
Costolo: Twitter priced its IPO at $16 before hitting $47
“The night of the IPO, you know, the stock was at, like, 47, and we had priced it at 16 on the S-One, like, two weeks earlier”
Hindman: Twitter, Airbnb, Netflix, and PayPal run on Mesos
“The open source components that, that make up a large part of the DCOS are used by a large number of companies today. Some of the biggest users out there are companies like Twitter Airbnb, HubSpot, eBay, and PayPal are using it for running things. Netflix is u…”
Foundation requires social media verification and artist invite trees for creators
“So on foundation, you were, we require social verification. So we actually require you to attach both your Twitter and Instagram to prove your identity. And we also ask that you come and be invited by another artist on the platform.”
Chokshi: Chris Messina proposed the first Twitter hashtag
“He's widely credited with proposing the first use of hashtag on Twitter”
Dixon: Key signing parties were identity verification standard pre-social media
“It was the best practice until we had Twitter and Reddit and Facebook.”
Margit Wennmachers: Twitter's early 'fail whale' outages became a monetization crisis
“It can be as simple as a site outage that is persistent, you know, Twitter back in the way, in the day with a fail whale, right, that, that ends up being a crisis because your product fundamentally doesn't work, and you can't monetize as a result.”