Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, appearing Tuesday night on 'Charlie Rose.' Costolo also spoke today at the Online News Association conference in San Francisco.
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Twitter users should be able to download their entire archive of tweets by year's end, the company's CEO, Dick Costolo said today.
During a keynote conversation at the Online News Association conference in San Francisco, Costolo told interviewer Emily Bell of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism that Twitter expects to provide its users by the end of the year with one of the most-desired capabilities of all -- being able to download their entire tweet history.
"The caveat is that this is the CEO saying this," Costolo joked, "not the engineer who's building this....[But it's] a priority we absolutely want to have out by the end of the year."
That news will certainly make a lot of Twitter users happy. But Costolo's comments on the growing discontent among developers and why Twitter is making the changes that rankle them may ultimately be far more important.
Over the past few weeks, many developers have complained that Twitter's moves have curtailed what they can do with their apps. That discontent was inflamed Thursday by claims by cloud-based tweet storage service ... [Read more]
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