Twitter, every mention
8 scenes (2025), the whole family · ← back to Twitter
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Twitter comes up
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 27:22 Ben Gilbert I mean, you think YouTube or Twitter or any of these, when someone clicks follow or subscribe, they're like, it's like signal in the algorithm, but it's not guaranteed.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:31:44 David Rosenthal Yeah, they launched it as a Twitter bot, right?
- ▶ 2:31:47 David Rosenthal And it was going off the rails on Twitter.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:19 Ben Gilbert Former chairman of Twitter.
- ▶ 4:06:29 Ben Gilbert Shiel Monat tweeted, actually this morning, I should have been preparing for this episode, and I was, like, replying to him on Twitter instead, that he's been considering getting this Sony or another point-and-shoot camera, and I just kind…
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:41:58 Ben Gilbert We'll put some links in the show notes too, but Google this, and I'm sure we'll tweet it so you can see it on our Twitter account.
- ▶ 4:59:02 David Rosenthal And also, uh, thank you to Sleepwell Capital on Twitter.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:37 David Rosenthal Or AcquiredFM, whatever channel works for you, or Twitter, whatever.