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by paragpatelone 4018 days ago
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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Nicholas_C 4018 days ago
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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seanp2k2 4018 days ago
They should have had Snoop be CEO: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/12/snoop-dogg-ceo...
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kjs3 4016 days ago
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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