Tag: BIZSTONE

Ordinarily, we're not crazy about Twitter accounts (or Tumblrs, or blogs) getting book deals. It's a little too IRL for us; plus, maybe, we're kinda jealous. But we're nothing but thrilled for @MayorEmanuel, which landed a deal with Scribner to release a book this summer. In case you don't remember (philistine!), @MayorEmanuel was the surprisingly beautiful, if profanity-laden account of the ...

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone made an appearance on Conan the other night, in honor of his company's 5th birthday. The occasion gave Stone a chance to take a brief look back on the early days of Twitter when, as O'Brien duly pointed out, many people thought the microblogging platform served no real purpose. "Everybody said 'Twitter's useless,'" Stone recalled. "To which my co-founder Evan ...

Let Zuck have his Person of the Year award, because Stephen Colbert just earned a more prestigious honor: the most retweeted man of the year. The tweet in question ("In honor of oil-soaked birds, 'tweets' are now 'gurgles.' http://bit.ly/cIhZNf") was linked to Comedy Central's 'Address the Mess' coverage, and retweeted over 44,000 times. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone presented a trophy to the ...

You've noticed that Twitter has slowly begun to encroach on your television with the sitcom-ization of '$#*! My Dad Says,' 'Shh...Don't Tell Steve' and, lately, some feed called 'Dear Girls Above Me.' Well, now Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone will be invading your cable box himself, appearing in a Stolichnaya Vodka commercial, as well as a print ad. In the video ad (after the break), two Bizzes ...

Vanity Fair will bow to Silicon Valley in its October issue, which will see the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Lo and behold, Mark Zuckerberg takes the number one spot: "This year Vanity Fair anoints Zuck as our new Caesar. He rules from the imperial capital of Palo Alto, California, the Rome of our nascent millennium." Although VF kind of glosses over ...

After Twitter's recent acquisition of Tweetie, it became clear that substantial changes were on the social network's horizon. And today, the site confirmed this by announcing its platform would now support special paid advertisements from specific companies. Known as 'Promoted Tweets,' the ads, according to co-founder Biz Stone's TwitterBlog, "are ordinary Tweets that businesses and ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/02/24/twitter-ads-imminent-might-actually-make-money/'; One of the games that digital prognosticators love to play is guessing when and how Twitter will make money. We've taken particular joy in lambasting one of our favorite social networks for absorbing investor dollars like a black hole. But all of the fun and games may be coming to an end now that ...

Twitter has joined the ranks of Facebook and Google as an iconic Web entity, having given pop culture such widely recognizable terms and phrases as "micro-blogging," "tweet," and "140-characters-or-less." Few people probably remember the site's humble origins, though, particularly its once vowel-less name. Say OMG has unearthed an amazing video of historical Net significance that features ...

The Internet is definitely hopped up on a Twitter high at the moment, and, now that Oprah is included, many say the site has reached its high-water mark. It seems that with everyone and their mother (near-literally) flooding Twitter, the site will soon lose its appeal to the early adopters and tech-savvy folks that made first made it a hit. From there, we'd think, the site's popularity could only ...

The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Biz Stone comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest Last night, Twitter founder Biz Stone subjected himself to an ...