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David Rosenthal: belief

28 Oct 2020 Acquired Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

“There were the product issues, but also I think you raise an interesting point. I hadn't thought about it.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
28 Oct 2020
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…That's correct. There were the product issues, but also I think you raise an interesting point. I hadn't thought about it. It's also just the nature of the ad unit itself. Facebook had done that big Microsoft deal. It was essentially still just display advertising on the site at this point, right? Yes. I think they probably charged based on clicks. It was AdSense style. The ads were over in the sidebar. The news feed was in the middle and then on the right hand side of facebook.com you’d have those bar of ads.…

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