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Rogers: Previous administration pressured Twitter and Meta to censor posts
“Under the prior administration included things like global engagement center censorship efforts that were the subject of the Murphy Supreme Court litigation, where the State Department Along with other organs of the executive branch would contact Twitter or Me…”
Rogers: Twitter moderation once banned calling a male sex offender male
“Like, we have seen tech workers make decisions, for example, that you should, it should not be permissible on Twitter to call a convicted sex offender, a male, which he is.”
VandeHei: Axios bans opinion pages and reporter political posts
“We don't have an opinion page. We ask our reporters to stay off of Twitter and social media platforms expressing their personal opinions.”
Dixon: VCs will not fund third-party tools for closed platforms
“You will not see any VC. We have not funded. No one will fund an anti-spam solution for Twitter or Facebook.”
Andreessen: Twitter generates $3B revenue with 300M active users
“It's a sign of the times that we have a company in the valley that's 10 years old that's doing three billion dollars in revenue, and has three hundred million active users, and everybody's like, wow, they suck.”
Costolo: Twitter partnered with Google to bypass Egypt's Arab Spring shutdown
“Egypt, you know, during the Arab Spring, we sort of started in Tunisia with people organizing protests on Twitter, and they were able to organize protests on Twitter because they were writing under pseudonyms and not, you know, their actual names, so people we…”
Sarandos notes Amazon paid 10x Twitter's price for non-exclusive NFL rights
“The cost of that Amazon NFL deal for basically games that are on two other networks at the same time, so completely non-exclusive programming, went up 10 times from Twitter to Amazon.”
Horowitz: Twitter is sole major tech company enforcing strict return-to-office mandate
“We haven't seen a lot of companies, you know, other than Elon at Twitter go like, you have to come back or you're gone. Like that, that's the one kind of big case, but most of them have been okay with it.”
Hung Lee: Elon Musk reduced Twitter's headcount down to 20%
“Now what he managed to do was to obviously wipe out more than 70% of the company, I believe, Pre-Musk. Twitter was significantly bigger than it was now. They're down to 20%, I believe, in terms of headcount.”
Casado: Jack Dorsey's Twitter Account Takeover Was Executed via SIM Port
“Jack Dorsey, if you know, his Twitter account was taken over. This was done via Simport.”
Daneshwar: Iranians routinely use VPNs to access blocked social media platforms
“Facebook advertisement is closed for Iranians, like Google AdWords as well, but the fact that people here are having the full access to Twitter, to Facebook, and Facebook is blocked by the government as well, but we are going through the VPNs, so everybody is …”
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.”