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Episode 044 — Up in the Clouds with Twitter

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss why Twitter needs new leadership, its massive potential, and why Google probably should acquire it Links Ben Thompson: Twitter Needs New Leadership – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Twitter’s Marketing Problem – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Facebook and the Feed – Stratechery Ev Williams: Sometimes Things Stay Stuck – Medium Ben Thompson: Twitter Acquires MoPub – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Peak Google – Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? Well, we had to make sure we got the correct intro because there was griping.

0:08.4

There were complaints. People were angry. I know. So I can ask you now, are you ready?

0:17.3

Born ready, Ben. Born ready. So how are you doing

0:21.7

I'm good

0:23.6

I have my family in town which is always fun

0:27.2

don't get to see them often enough

0:28.6

my parents are visiting over from Australia

0:30.6

I asked my mom was listening

0:33.7

and she commented on the Apple Watch

0:35.4

and she told me to tell you that the reason

0:37.4

she's not buying one is because she thinks they look ugly.

0:41.7

Well, that's a good reason.

0:43.6

Yeah, that is a good reason.

0:45.1

This is one of the challenges, right?

0:46.5

You're trying to design something fashionable and there's no accounting for taste, as they say.

0:51.4

Yes.

0:52.3

So, yeah, my wife's is arriving today from, um,

0:57.1

from America. She arrived at my parents' house the first day. Um, she's, thanks mom. My mom sent it over.

1:05.3

Uh, but mine is still processing it to ship, so. Yeah, I'm months away, but they sent me an email about something happening.

1:13.8

So I'm hoping it's not months away, but we'll see.

1:16.8

Yeah, at this rate, you're going to get up for me.

1:19.2

It's going to be funny in a quotes sort of way.

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