Comments on: Help Me Interview Evan Williams, CEO Twitter

By: ajolie11

ajolie11 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:27:08 +0000

Question:

1. Are you going to bring in a CEO like google did with Schmidt? Someone who has been with a big company who is also innovative. Or are you thinking "if the pimply kid at Facebook can do it, heck any of us can do it?"

2. If you were single (or uncommitted) right now as Twitter is hot would you be getting a lot more nooky compared to where you were a five years ago?

By: janetti !

janetti ! — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:47:17 +0000

Found this post on Ev's blog (not sure what year it was written) -

'Starting a company is like landing on a deserted island...'

http://evhead.com/2008/10/starting-company-is-like-landing-on.html

Which sparked these questions -

As the successful founder of two industry-shifting companies - can he share some stories of the struggles and challenges? What was one comical yet poignant event that helped him keep building? What were some of the evolutionary steps at Twitter that marked significant change?

Just questions of curiosity.

This will be a great interview. Looking forward to it.

~ Janetti

By: Jesus-Hussein

Jesus-Hussein — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:56:27 +0000

1. Did he watch the film "Dogville" by Lars Von Trier?
2. If he did, can he comment on his similarity with Tom Edison personage?

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:33:10 +0000

1. Is there any strategy to reduce the % of autobot submissions to twitter?

2. There's been a lot of hacking and security attacks done via Twitter recently. Do you see any innovations for antivirus/firewall protection coming in the future?

By: Norbert Mayer-Wittmann

Norbert Mayer-Wittmann — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:05:59 +0000

1. It seems like you don't value the requests of your users (e.g. #fixreplies) -- why should anyone continue to use your service?

2. What makes you think your recommendations are worth anything?

3. What, exactly, does "verified account" mean -- and why should I care about that?

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:28:10 +0000

What is your vision around Twitter search? Will the domain of Twitter search be tweets, users, and/or web pages? Will the emphasis of Twitter search be on fact finding or discovering? And how core will search be to Twitter’s offering?

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:06:57 +0000

How do you balance being Ev and Biz’s Twitter (this is just a side project mode and thank you for paying attention to us) with pressure from your investors and the expectations of the media, users, etc. who look at you as the next Google/Fb etc?

By: Soren Gordhamer

Soren Gordhamer — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:37:26 +0000

Question:

"There was a study recently that found that 40% of Tweets are 'pointless babble'. People can of course use Twitter in a variety of ways, but do you have any concerns about the impact it is having on the culture? Do you ever look at the community Twitter stream and think, 'Man, some of these people really need to get a life? Or do you mainly see the positive impacts, like how it is democratizing news?'"

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:41:39 +0000

Have you or your co-founders thought about the potential of Twitter to become THE next communication platform after rss, email, internet protocol, telephone, fax, paper mail, … ? And what was the pivotal point in the young history of Twitter where you internal realised, ‘we are on to something here’?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:17:07 +0000

Ask him: "Would your previous experience working at Google, and Google's mixed product development record, make it unlikely you'd sell Twitter to Google?"

Also: "Is Google Wave overhyped or a threat to Twitter?"