<story><title>Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/11/twitter-announces-ceo-dick-costolo-stepping-down-jack-dorsey-named-interim-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binxbolling</author><text>Which is wildly successful and doesn&amp;#x27;t cost us taxpayers a dime. If our &amp;quot;leaders&amp;quot; stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.</text></item><item><author>larrys</author><text>Then you end up with the &amp;quot;postal service&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>Kalium</author><text>Sometimes, I think it would be for the best if the USG had a way to acqui-hire companies that are best suited to be public services.</text></item><item><author>pyre</author><text>&amp;gt; I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility&lt;p&gt;Twitter is a business, how were you expecting this to work? For the USG to aqui-hire them?</text></item><item><author>wyclif</author><text>The problem with this, as an early Twitter user (summer 2006), is that I don&amp;#x27;t really want Twitter to significantly change. The minimalism is a feature. It was SMS on the web. I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility, but that&amp;#x27;s impossible now because it&amp;#x27;s been &amp;quot;monetized.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>austenallred</author><text>Having a founder and product visionary (Jack) in the driver&amp;#x27;s seat at Twitter is &lt;i&gt;absolutely&lt;/i&gt; the right move. Sure, Jack has his quirks, and seems a little bit crazy and minimalistic, but that&amp;#x27;s exactly what makes him the right person for the job.&lt;p&gt;Twitter is executing on its vision now just fine, but that&amp;#x27;s just the problem: There hasn&amp;#x27;t been any vision left in the company. No truly big moves have been made, and the product has remained almost entirely the same (with the exception of fonts and colors constantly moving around the screen and a lot more ads).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>It was only wildly successful until our leaders &amp;quot;sabotaged&amp;quot; it by forcing it to obey standard actuarial practices. (Unlike the rest of the govt, the USPS is now required to fully fund it&amp;#x27;s pension plans.)&lt;p&gt;See this comment for a more detailed explanation: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6710602&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6710602&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, it&amp;#x27;s pretty hard not to be &amp;quot;wildly successful&amp;quot; when you get a legally enforced monopoly. Comcast is also &amp;quot;wildly successful&amp;quot;, but we certainly don&amp;#x27;t want to expand that model.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/11/twitter-announces-ceo-dick-costolo-stepping-down-jack-dorsey-named-interim-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binxbolling</author><text>Which is wildly successful and doesn&amp;#x27;t cost us taxpayers a dime. If our &amp;quot;leaders&amp;quot; stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.</text></item><item><author>larrys</author><text>Then you end up with the &amp;quot;postal service&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>Kalium</author><text>Sometimes, I think it would be for the best if the USG had a way to acqui-hire companies that are best suited to be public services.</text></item><item><author>pyre</author><text>&amp;gt; I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility&lt;p&gt;Twitter is a business, how were you expecting this to work? For the USG to aqui-hire them?</text></item><item><author>wyclif</author><text>The problem with this, as an early Twitter user (summer 2006), is that I don&amp;#x27;t really want Twitter to significantly change. The minimalism is a feature. It was SMS on the web. I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility, but that&amp;#x27;s impossible now because it&amp;#x27;s been &amp;quot;monetized.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>austenallred</author><text>Having a founder and product visionary (Jack) in the driver&amp;#x27;s seat at Twitter is &lt;i&gt;absolutely&lt;/i&gt; the right move. Sure, Jack has his quirks, and seems a little bit crazy and minimalistic, but that&amp;#x27;s exactly what makes him the right person for the job.&lt;p&gt;Twitter is executing on its vision now just fine, but that&amp;#x27;s just the problem: There hasn&amp;#x27;t been any vision left in the company. No truly big moves have been made, and the product has remained almost entirely the same (with the exception of fonts and colors constantly moving around the screen and a lot more ads).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austenallred</author><text>&amp;gt;Which is wildly successful and doesn&amp;#x27;t cost us taxpayers a dime&lt;p&gt;You might want to double check your info on that one. The US Postal Service lost $32 Billion over the past four years.&lt;p&gt;USPS losses:&lt;p&gt;* 2011: $5.1 Billion&lt;p&gt;* 2012: $15.9 Billion&lt;p&gt;* 2013: $5.5 Billion&lt;p&gt;* 2014: $5.5 Billion&lt;p&gt;2011&amp;#x2F;2012: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;money.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;economy&amp;#x2F;postal-service-record-losses&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;money.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;economy&amp;#x2F;postal-service-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2013: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.usps.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;national-releases&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;pr13_087.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.usps.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;national-releases&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;pr13_087....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2014: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.usps.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;national-releases&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;pr14_059.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;about.usps.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;national-releases&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;pr14_059....&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>