Twitter CEO on No-Tweet Clauses in Celebrity Contracts

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/21/A_Conversation_with_Twitter_CEO_Evan_Williams

Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams and Federated Media's John Battelle discuss the trend of Hollywood actors and professional athletes having "no-tweet" clauses in their contracts.

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Twitter co-founder Evan Williams talks with Federated Media's John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit about current trends on the Internet and the future of one of the most popular social web services online. - Web 2.0 Summit

Evan Williams is chairman and chief product officer of Twitter, Inc. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Pyra Labs, who created Blogger in 1999. In 2003, Blogger was purchased by Google, where Williams worked as a product and engineering manager until late 2004.

Williams was raised on a farm in Nebraska and dropped out of college as a sophomore, prior starting his first Internet company in 1994.

John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author. Currently founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing, he is also a founder and executive producer of conferences in the media, technology, communications, and entertainment industries and "band manager" with BoingBoing.net.

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[GesusKhrist]

Calgary Gary your a lil bitch and a homo for using gay ass twitter, and speaking of douchbags you and your daffy twitter boyfriends take the cake

[garycalgary]

I love twitter if celebrities aren't just attention whores and actually say something cool

does the twitter CEO meet each celebrity to verify them or how does that work?

[garycalgary]

@GesusKhrist douchebag

[GesusKhrist]

twitter is gay

[TheRealNayJackson]

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[CWrEcKBoY92]

Follow me @Juschrisalex and I'll follow back

[michaelemeryy]

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[bodeezy]

I'm a celebrity and I refuse to twitter.

I'm famous enough and there is such a thing as "overexposure".

Besides, who gives a fuck about what celebrities are doing every minute or what their fucking opinion is on ANY subject ?

[CoffeyBreaks]

Maybe he felt guilty about the thought of introducing a clause, within his own company, about Twitter employees not being able to tweet on the job.... lol

[PuppetXeno]

Hey, I'm no celebrity and I'm not allowed to tweet.. twit.. twat.. whatever. Also, there's a no photography clause in my contract. Well only when I'm at the job, naturally.. so whatever, it makes perfect sense to me.