Big shake up at Twitter continues

Scoble sure is great at reporting facts! oh wait!

https://twitter.com/#!/stevej/status/104955838384451584

> @Scobleizer hey, @robey and I still work at Twitter. @jeremy left in 2009 but we see him in the office from time-to-time.

Why do people still listen to him?

It's not quite accurate. As far as i know, two of the people listed as having left haven't (yet) and others who did leave aren't listed.

https://twitter.com/jkalucki/status/104452365515628544

Of folks who were there at 2007, about one to two years in to twitter's life, there is still @jkalucki, @alissa, @robey, @stevej, and @jack of course.

The truth is that for the most part there were people hired in above the original employees and they were able to keep doing tech roles. Most didn't move in to senior management. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Random thought: Are Apple the most likely buyer for Twitter? I bet there's a lot of overlap between their users, and it would be a nice addition as a native app on the iPhone. Also Twitter's prominent usage among celebrities, musicians etc might make a nice complement to iTunes.

And it gets Apple's foot in the door of (realtime) search.

Any time someone says "company x hates company y", I stop reading, because it's always more nuanced than that. Any sufficiently large company competes with others on some fronts and collaborates with them on others. Apple uses Google Maps and Samsung chips. Google employees have MacBooks (and yes, they are even allowed to carry iPhones if they prefer).

At the end of the day it's about who can make the most money, and which set of alliances will get them there. No more, no less.

Scoble got his facts wrong, and wrote a followup: https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/birhHh9j...