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Dick Costolo: evaluation

28 Oct 2020 Acquired Twitter (with Dick Costolo)

“No, I think the reason RSS didn't succeed is just because Facebook and Twitter displays them.”

— Dick Costolo

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Dick Costolo
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Claim type
evaluation
Recorded
28 Oct 2020
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Acquired

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…Is there counterfactual to that? Well, This is why RSS didn't succeed because all those publishers own the content that got plumbed into someone else's experience and they couldn't, in a first party way, control the ads in the engagement and the ads in the data coming back from the ads. No, I think the reason RSS didn't succeed is just because Facebook and Twitter displays them. Just became easier for everyone in the world to use these things instead of RSS readers. Makes sense.…

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