 "Dick Costolo resigns: Here's how Twitter reacted to the news")
Twitter’s Dick Costolo announced his resignation from the post of CEO and has named Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey as his replacement as interim CEO. Costolo had been Twitter’s CEO for five years and led the company through a successful stock market debut in 2013. In the mean time he also increased the employee count as well as subscribers on the micro-blogging site in addition to overseeing lots of UI changes on both the web as well as mobile platforms. While this move got a lot of love from investors, pushing Twitter’s share price up by 6 percent, the reactions on Twitter itself are mixed. Here is a selection of some good and some not so good reactions on Dick Costolo’s resignation. This is the tweet that got the ball rolling
Dick Costolo was praised by a lot of people for his tenure at Twitter as CEO has seen the company reach a $24 billion valuation.
As it is with every major news item, the funny people of Twitter always have a thing or two to say.
There were some criticisms as well
Hip hop superstar Snoop Dogg has also offered to lead Twitter.
A parting tweet from Dick Costolo stressing on the fact that Twitter’s mission statement still remains the same.