Interview with Blaine from Twitter

Interview with Blaine from Twitter

by Mike McDerment - April 23/2008

Recently the Silicon Valley Insider reported Blaine Cook, Lead Architect of Twitter has left Twitter. I interviewed Blaine at FOWA 2008 (as well as Leah Culver, Matt Mullenweg and the guys from Wufoo, amongst others) and I was taken aback by what a nice, down-to-earth guy Blaine is.

There is a bit of a brushfire burning in the blogosphere today about Blaine’s leaving Twitter. Some people are faulting him for Twitter’s spotty uptime, all I know is that I’ve noticed a pile of issues since he left.

In this interview we talk about scaling Twitter and the demands that come with that responsibility, among other things:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPTkehPTSLs

P.S., we’ll be posting more videos in the coming weeks and months.

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3 Comments (add comment)

Apr 23/08
2:52 pm

mathewingram.com/work | Twitter-storm: Blaine leaves, blame flies says:

[...] of FreshBooks interviewed Blaine during his road-trip to the Future of Web Apps conference, and the video is here. Mathew posted this article under Blogs, Social networks, twitter on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 [...]

Apr 23/08
10:27 pm

randy says:

Smart guy.

Apr 24/08
2:54 am

Mel Kirk says:

Great video Mike. Blaine is by far one of the smartest guys that I’ve met and I think the way that TechCrunch wrote the article about him was really unfair. I don’t know where we’d be today without Twitter and that’s due to the hardwork of Blaine and the team. I wish him all the best for the future

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