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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:

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

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


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  • randy

    Smart guy.

  • http://www.randommel.com Mel Kirk

    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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