Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company

Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by argonaut on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @06:48PM (#13225478)

Facebook has multiple VPs of product. So does Google. This is common...

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by stonogo on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:17PM (#13225991)

It is common when you have more than one product.

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by balls187 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:29PM (#13226065)

Twitter has more than one product.

Off the top of my head:

Twitter App- Web, IOS, Android, Other

Twitter API

Twitter Firehose

Twitter Advertising

Twitter Analytics

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by bleachedsleet on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:45PM (#13226430)

Don't forget Periscope...not sure how that fits into the company structure though, admittedly

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by was_boring on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:50PM (#13226862)

Isn't periscope being shut down?

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by chanux on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @12:10AM (#13226934)

That's vine I guess.

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by curiousDog on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @12:36AM (#13227036)

I think that's Vine.

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by Karunamon on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:19PM (#13225658)

Facebook and Google aren't financially struggling. There's something to be said for "too many chefs" when your main issue is doing something, anything to make some cash. Perhaps some downsizing was truly in order.

On the other hand, losing this many execs in this short of time almost never bodes well, which means their stock price is going to tumble even further without something drastic happening soon.

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by balls187 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:30PM (#13226074)

> Facebook and Google aren't financially struggling.

Because advertising on Facebook and Google pays off.

Twitter, afaik, has struggled to be a relevant ad platform.

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by ci5er on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:06PM (#13226518)

At $2B/year, I can only hope to be that irrelevant.

Now, if you want to talk about the $2.5B expense line....

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by lallysingh on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:33AM (#13228354)

$2.5B!! What are they blowing that kind of cash on?

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by wattt on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @08:07AM (#13228763)

It took them 6 weeks to change the star button into a heart, which nobody wanted because we don't "like" all the things we save for later. Twitter has been going in the wrong direction all year.

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by balls187 on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @12:01PM (#13230647)

They changed "moments" to "explore" but thankfully changed it back.

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by ulfw on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:41AM (#13236107)

Goes to show that their product leadership has no clue what they are doing

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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by cbsmith on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:50PM (#13226444)

Depends on what you mean by "relevant"... It took in nearly $550 million last quarter.

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