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June 12, 2015

Twitter swaps CEOs again, Jack Dorsey takes over temporarily

by John_A

Twitter IPO Raises $1.82 Billion With Value Topping Facebook

Twitter’s stock slid significantly in April when its earnings report leaked out early, and in a likely-related move, now it’s changing CEOs. Dick Costolo is out (at left in the picture above, taken during the company’s IPO), although he will remain on the company’s board, while founder, first user and former CEO Jack Dorsey (at right) is taking over again on an interim basis. He will stay on as CEO at Square while a search committee — including yet another former Twitter CEO, Evan Williams — searches for a permanent replacement. Of course, that the report leaked isn’t the problem, it’s the slow user growth it showed. Investor Chris Sacca recently published a lengthy blog post about “what Twitter could be” and despite a number of changes over the last year, it appears many of the folks owning shares had different ideas than its (as of July 1st) former leader.

[Image credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images]

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Costolo stepped up from the role of COO to replace Williams in 2010, initiating a period of many changes in the company’s strategy, plus acquiring companies like Atebits and Periscope. Atebits was a third party Twitter app developer, but after its acquisition, Twitter started putting tight limits on other similar apps while steering users to the official one. So far, the introduction of Periscope has shown a similar path as the company has battled another live video streaming service, Meerkat.

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