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:
P.S., we’ll be posting more videos in the coming weeks and months.
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2:52 pm
[...] 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 [...]
10:27 pm
Smart guy.
2:54 am
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