Twitter's News chief Vivian Schiller is leaving the social media company, she tweeted on Wednesday. Schiller, who has worked at The New York Times, MSN, CNN, NBC News, News Corp and AOL ,was brought in to shore up Twitter's media division. She ended up in the role for less than a year. In a series of posts, Schiller tweeted that the move is to allow new media chief Katie Stanton to ”reorganize as she sees fit.” The outgoing head of Twitter's News division then thanked former Twitter COO Ali Rowghani and Twitter's former head of North American media, Chloe Sladden — both who have left the.
- 10/9/2014
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Ali Rowghani is stepping down as chief operating officer of Twitter. “It's been an amazing ride,” Rowghani tweeted. “And I will cherish the memories.” Rowghani joined the social media giant in 2010 as chief financial officer and transitioned to COO in 2012. Also read: Twitter Surprises by Not Losing Money Rowghani's departure comes as Twitter's share price has dropped 45% this year, despite reporting no losses in earnings in April. The social media giant has struggled to expand user growth for the service, and Rowghani was under tremendous pressure from the company after the Wall Street Journal dubbed him “Mr. Fix-It” in a.
- 6/12/2014
- by James Crugnale
- The Wrap
Twitter COO Ali Rowghani is leaving the social media company. He tweeted on Thursday morning: Goodbye Twitter. It's been an amazing ride, and I will cherish the memories. — Ali Rowghani (@Rowghani) June 12, 2014 Rowghani resigns after joining the company as CFO in 2010 and becoming COO in 2012. Previously he was chief financial officer at Pixar. The company said in a regulatory filing that it does not plan to hire a replacement. The filing reads: "Mr. Rowghani will continue to be a Twitter employee and act as a strategic advisor to the CEO. Twitter does not intend to hire
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- 6/12/2014
- by Natalie Jarvey, Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If Twitter drove TV ratings, industry insiders have long pointed out, then The CW’s Vampire Diaries would be a top-rated show.
Yet a new study by Nielsen demonstrates — for the first time — that there is indeed a link between Twitter activity and a show’s popularity.
The ratings measurement company analyzed minute-to-minute trends in Nielsen’s TV ratings and Twitter activity for 221 broadcast primetime programs. Nielsen found the volume of tweets caused “significant changes” among the live ratings of 29 percent of the programs. Less surprisingly, the company found the connection worked both ways — a program’s popularity influenced Twitter...
Yet a new study by Nielsen demonstrates — for the first time — that there is indeed a link between Twitter activity and a show’s popularity.
The ratings measurement company analyzed minute-to-minute trends in Nielsen’s TV ratings and Twitter activity for 221 broadcast primetime programs. Nielsen found the volume of tweets caused “significant changes” among the live ratings of 29 percent of the programs. Less surprisingly, the company found the connection worked both ways — a program’s popularity influenced Twitter...
- 8/6/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
The Nielsen study released today provides statistical evidence that there is a link between Twitter chat and a rise in TV ratings for some shows. The Twitter Causation Study analyzed minute-to-minute trends in Nielsen’s Live TV Ratings and Tweets for 221 broadcast primetime program episodes using Nielsen’s SocialGuide. The findings showed that Live TV ratings had a statistically significant impact in related Tweets among 48 percent of the episodes sampled, and that the volume of Tweets caused statistically significant changes in Live TV Ratings among 29 percent of the episodes. “Using time series analysis, we saw a statistically significant causal influence indicating that a spike in TV ratings can increase the volume of Tweets, and, conversely, a spike in Tweets can increase tune-in,” Paul Donato, Chief Research Officer, Nielsen, said in a statement. “This rigorous, research-based approach provides our clients and the media industry as a whole with a better understanding...
- 8/6/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Mciroblogging website Twitter could float on the stock market next year with a valuation of around $$11 billion (£6.8 billion), according to analysts. Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey told CNBC late last year that the company was preparing for an initial public offering (Ipo), but it would go ahead "when we feel the company is ready for that milestone". Twitter recently shuffled its management team, promoting chief financial officer Ali Rowghani to chief operating officer and hiring Zynga financial chief Mike Gupta as his replacement. Greencrest analyst Max Wolff told Forbes that while Twitter has not yet gone public, its shares are already traded on secondary markets, where they are unofficially traded privately. Based on recent trades, Wolff feels that the microblogging site has a notional valuation of $$11 billon. Twitter's financing round (more)...
- 1/3/2013
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
Twitter, the darling of social networks, finally announced plans this month to make money on its 130 million (and growing) users. With the vision mapped, it's now about execution. That humdrum blocking and tackling required to grow a small enterprise to big boy proportions. It's about creating processes. It's about building infrastructure. It's about hitting milestones. And it's not what CEO and co-founder Evan Williams is used to.
Williams, 38, likes to start companies. Born on a farm, Williams dropped out of University of Nebraska, Lincoln after a year and a half. He co-founded Pyra and spun off a note-taking tool called Blogger, which he sold to Google in 2003 for $50 million in stock. The following year, he co-founded Odeo, a podcasting company, and then spun off Twitter in 2007, growing it to 50 employees last year. Williams is a classic startup entrepreneur, but he has limited experience managing a large company--and Twitter will employ 350 people by year's end,...
Williams, 38, likes to start companies. Born on a farm, Williams dropped out of University of Nebraska, Lincoln after a year and a half. He co-founded Pyra and spun off a note-taking tool called Blogger, which he sold to Google in 2003 for $50 million in stock. The following year, he co-founded Odeo, a podcasting company, and then spun off Twitter in 2007, growing it to 50 employees last year. Williams is a classic startup entrepreneur, but he has limited experience managing a large company--and Twitter will employ 350 people by year's end,...
- 7/15/2010
- by Lizette Chapman
- Fast Company
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