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Evan Williams Shoots for the Hat Trick, After Blogger, Twitter, Building New Startup

Surprising no one, Twitter cofounder and former CEO Evan Williams has announced that his role at the company is greatly diminished these days and that he's already thinking about what's next. With Blogger and Twitter under his belt, he doesn't really need an introduction and anything he's working ...

30 March 2011
05:58 GMT

Twitter Creator Jack Dorsey May Be Coming Back After Being Kicked Out in 2008

Entrepreneurs are a fickle bunch, they put a lot of passion into their businesses and products, but are just as likely to move on to the next shiny thing once things settle down. It happens over and over again and it seems to be happening at Twitter as well. One thing that may be connected to that is the increasing r...

24 March 2011
10:07 GMT

Evan Williams Steps Down as Twitter CEO

Twitter announced an executive shift at the very top as cofounder Evan Williams steps down as CEO to be replaced by current COO Dick Costolo. Williams will focus on product strategy and vision while Costolo is said to be working on driving up revenue. "I am most satisfied while pushing product direction. Building thi...

5 October 2010
04:15 GMT

The Dalai Lama Joins Twitter

People have been flocking to Twitter for a while now, famous people, that is. The gold rush may have slowed down in recent months but there are still plenty of celebrities or otherwise public figures joining Twitter all the time. Why, New Orleans rapper extraordinaire Lil Wayne joined and started tweeting away a coup...

23 February 2010
10:08 GMT

Twitter Sets New Usage Records

Twitter continues to make the headlines all over the world in the mainstream media, much more so than Facebook despite being several times smaller. But for the past few months, it looked like the media attention wasn't correlating to actual usage, and user growth has been stalling since summer, according to mos...

13 January 2010
10:18 GMT

Twitter Not Concerned About Growth Slump

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter cofounder and CEO Evan Williams answered some questions about the service ranging from the perennial business model ones to more tricky issues like the growth slowdown in the US for the past few months. While he did recognize several problems, he was optimistic...

21 October 2009
06:32 GMT

Hacker Steals and Leaks Twitter Confidential Corporate Documents

A hacker claims to have compromised the personal email accounts of several Twitter employees including that of Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams. As a result, he also obtained access to one employee's Google Apps account, from where he downloaded confidential company documents that were recently leaked to the med...

16 July 2009
04:51 GMT


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