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Re:Twitter CFO's Ascent Creates New Power Center by paragpatelone on Monday June 15, 2015 @01:28PM (#9720729)
Not really sure what Mr. Noto brings to the table besides trying to sell the stock to institutional investors and others on wall street.

I don't want to discount Mr. Noto, however I really don't think he can turn twitter around. They need someone who can think ahead into the future, take bold risk, actually be in the office every day.

Compared to Facebook I just don't see Twitter "Moving Fast and Breaking Things", not because they don't have the talent; but they just lack a clear direction.

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Re:Twitter CFO's Ascent Creates New Power Center by Nicholas_C on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:55PM (#9721261)
In which way do you mean "turn twitter around"? Twitter has 302M active users. Twitter, to me at least, seems very much successful from a product perspective. People love it and it's used heavily by the media and just about every large consumer facing company in the world has an active twitter feed they use to reach out to customers.

Financially, yes, it needs some work. Which is perhaps why they feel comfortable putting the CFO at the helm.

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Re:Twitter CFO's Ascent Creates New Power Center by seanp2k2 on Monday June 15, 2015 @01:56PM (#9720889)
They should have had Snoop be CEO: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/12/snoop-dogg-ceo...
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Re:Twitter CFO's Ascent Creates New Power Center by kjs3 on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @08:53PM (#9729560)
Not really sure what Mr. Noto brings to the table besides trying to sell the stock to institutional investors and others on wall street.

What do you think the job of a CFO is?

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