Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams are doing a bit of a dosado. @Ev is taking @Jack’s spot and moving into the CEO role, while @Jack becomes Chairman of the Board.
“We’re entering a new phase now and there are new kinds of challenges ahead. Healthy companies acknowledge the need for change even during the best of times,” Williams wrote. “As Twitter grows both internally and externally, we took a good look at our path forward and saw the need for a focused approach from a single leader.” [source]
Hrm. Translation? Time to actually start playing the game for real. Step up to …read more

Every time I hear that phrase, I think of the movie Comedian.

But I digress. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about PR, social media, and the changing face of the industry.
Alejandro from SuccessFool and I were talking one evening about his series on entrepreneurs and their stories. He asked me about my own entrepreneurial journey and what, if anything I would do differently the second time around.
I have a rather unique entrepreneurial path… I was working for a CFO at a college and just didn’t like it. He would hand me the school’s 3M budget, ask me to balance it …read more

Scoble visited Twitter and talked to Ev & Biz about the tech troubles, but I haven’t heard anything about a Community Manager. Lots of talk about the tech, but…what about the users guys?!
Biz just said “even if you’re frustrated and you know what’s going on, that’s 80% of it”. Yes. Now if all of the main users had that same knowledge rather than just the developers, that would make a huge difference.

There’s been a lot of fuss over Twitter lately. Lots. Everyone is up in arms about the service in general, and some are even threatening to leave it forever (because THAT will help the situation, clearly).
While there’s a lot of controversy over what Twitter is NOT doing, and a lot of cranky blog posts and bullshit about how they’re screwing up a good thing, there’s very little helpful or constructive comments out there.
Because of that, and because I think that people are just being cranky about the service, I now present you with:
An Open Letter to Ev, Jack and Biz.
Hi …read more