Twitter appoints new boss—third executive to hold the job in less than a year (express.co.uk).
“TWITTER Inc appointed Keith Coleman, founder of startup Yes Inc, as head of its product team, the third executive to lead the division in less than a year. The micro-blogging service said it has acquired Yes, the maker of apps such as Frenzy and WYD-What you doing, which allows users to connect with their friends.”
Which, if I’m not mistaken, will be why that will make bugger all difference at this stage for what is no longer the new social media thing, time having “friended” that to Facebook’s Instagram.
“Twitter, which faces stagnating user growth amid stiff competition from rivals, has for months been rumoured to be up for sale and hired bankers last month to field acquisition offers. Companies including Walt Disney Co and Alphabet Inc were reported to be interested in the company. ”
Reminding of what seems to await a “change the world” service that seemingly never seemed to change the fact that it could not make revenue drop out of those billions of 140 char. tweets and bringing to mind Rupe Murdoch’s plight—without perhaps the overt disgust—after his NewsCorp purchased MySpace seemingly after it had already turned into a lemon, which everyone else seemed to know, and even faithfull Tom couldn’t do anything about that. Trivia: I believe Justine Timberlake owns it now—and indeed has since 2011 (theguardian.com, Jun. 2011)—but… yeah, MySpace, who fucking cares?
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