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No IPO for Twitter. No S*@%t

Twitter has no plans to do an IPO. Biz Stone told Reuters that Twitter has “so many other things before we even think about that”, and that “We are not even discussing it internally. It’s too far off.” Now I realize that anything Biz Stone says is considered news but, folks, let’s be serious here: [...]
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Let the Good Times – and Money – Flow for Twitter

Four years and about 60 million users later, Twitter is finally ready to unveil its business model – something that will take a project gone wild and transform it into a business. According to the New York Times, Twitter will unveil an advertising platform today, Promoted Tweets, that will see ads appear when a search [...]
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The Tao of Biz and Ev

One of the more fascinating things about Twitter is how every word spoken by co-founders Biz Stone and Ev Williams is scrutinized, explored and reported/blogged on so enthusiastically. If Stone or Williams speak at a conference, the media/blogger attention is red-hot in its intensity. Stone, for example, spoke yesterday at an event at Oxford University. [...]
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What’s Happening? Huh?

The oh-so-mysterious Twitter threw everyone a strange curveball tonight with some big news: It’s changing it’s tagline from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?” In a blog post, Biz Stone said: Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. “What are you doing?” [...]
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RIP: Twitter’s Suggested Users

It took longer than it should have but Twitter has finally decided to kill the suggested user list – the one that automatically added 20 high-profile people to follow for all new Twitter users. The list was sophomoric because it was all the cool people culled from a master list of about 500 celebrities, athletes [...]
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