I haven’t really written anything about the leaked/stolen Twitter documents (“Twittergate”) that were obtained by TechCrunch. But now that they’re being disclosed, there’s lots of interesting stuff in there about competitors, business model, product vision, potential revenues and other things.
- Danny Sullivan has written a post about the Twitter suggested users list; the Twitterati, the Twitter “Who’s Who”
- Matt McGee summarizes some of the internal competitive discussions about Google, Microsoft and Facebook (e.g., “how Facebook could kill us”)
- TechCrunch offers a wide ranging discussion of Twitter’s ambitions (“to be the pulse of the planet”) and exposes a bunch of the memos that Matt discusses in his post
This is all pretty embarrassing and awkward for Twitter but reveals the company as aggressive, disciplined and paranoid (to some degree).
Fascinating stuff for those who are interested to dig into it.
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Update: Danny’s post was independent of the disclosed internal Twitter docs, based on his own research he informs me.
Update 2: Todd Leiser points to a very good overview and summary of the Twitter docs at SAI.
July 17, 2009 at 3:50 pm |
The Suggested Users Lists is 100% stolen free
Wasn’t in the docs; just coincidental project I was working on.
July 17, 2009 at 3:52 pm |
Thanks Danny. Will clarify
July 17, 2009 at 4:01 pm |
I am surprised they didn’t put ej on their recommended list.
July 17, 2009 at 6:39 pm |
There’s also a nice summary at http://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-twitters-stolen-docs-taught-us-2009-7
July 17, 2009 at 7:17 pm |
ok let’s do the wave… Nielsen June 2009 Social Media Stats:
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/social-media-stats-myspace-music-growing-twitters-big-move/#more-13678
July 17, 2009 at 7:21 pm |
I realize the Nielsen stats are off topic but thought Twitter’s growth relative to the social media category would be germane.
July 17, 2009 at 7:26 pm |
Thanks Tim
July 17, 2009 at 8:19 pm |
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July 17, 2009 at 8:26 pm |
If it is a controversy then who is responsible, danny? techcrunch?
the docs are part of the danny’s research?
Waiting for further update to this.
July 17, 2009 at 10:00 pm |
A “hacker” got the docs and gave them to TechCrunch. TechCrunch released some of them. Danny’s article was totally separate and I was mistaken to lump them together. I thought he had used the docs but he had not.