Kayvon Beykpour @kayvz Twitter profile

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Kayvon Beykpour

1 year

trying something new! If you need help or advice with a product or startup you’re building, you’re welcome to book a session with me on @useintro at .

Intro - Book with Kayvon Beykpour

Co-founder of Periscope

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

Interrupting my paternity leave to share some final @twitter -related news: I’m leaving the company after over 7 years.

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@kayvz

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Wow. Insane piloting skills and a brave rescue effort.

Ted Corcoran (RedTRaccoon)

@RedTRaccoon

5 years

Pilot flies within inches of mountainside to rescue injured French skier. I've seen helicopter pilots do amazing things, but this one takes first place.

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Kayvon Beykpour

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The truth is that this isn’t how and when I imagined leaving Twitter, and this wasn’t my decision. Parag asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction.

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Kayvon Beykpour

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4 years

Rest in peace @cbrewsayso . You were taken from this world far too soon, but you’ll be remembered forever. #LoveForCourtney

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

Fleets are a way to share fleeting thoughts. Unlike Tweets, Fleets disappear after 24 hours and don’t get Retweets, Likes, or public replies-- people can only react to your Fleets with DMs. Instead of showing up in people’s timelines, Fleets are viewed by tapping on your avatar.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

While I’m disappointed, I take solace in a few things: I am INSANELY proud of what our collective team achieved over the last few years, and my own contribution to this journey.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

on April 3, we welcomed our baby girl into the world 🥰 both she and @pandemona are doing well

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

Twitter’s DAU has grown by over 87% since Q2 2018 and our team has shipped bold and exciting new evolutions to the product (like Spaces, Communities, Topics, Creator tools, Safety controls) at a much much faster pace than anytime over the last decade.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

💙 to all the tweeps impacted by the changes tomorrow. thank you for pouring your heart and soul into Twitter 🫡

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

walking outside is such a simple but under-rated WFH essential. was having a rough day. took a 30min walk outside in the middle of the day and felt like a new person.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

As for what’s next for me: well, I’m still on paternity leave! Looking forward to my first break since co-founding @periscopeco with @joebernstein , and sinking my teeth into something new eventually

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

5 years

A year later, we started working together at @periscopeco (she finally followed me back on Twitter). In the years since then, we realized we were perfect for each other in every way. Last weekend, I asked her if she’d marry me. She said yes ❤️💍🙏🏼

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

5 years

"He is a BIG fan of Kendrick Lamar" @cc_hub @jack

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

I’m proud that we changed the perception around Twitter’s pace of innovation, and proud that we shifted the culture internally to make bigger bets, move faster, and eliminate sacred cows.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

I feel proud and fortunate to have @vijaya as a colleague. She is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, considerate and hard-working people I know. She has the most difficult and thankless job at Twitter, and she does it with grace and humility every day.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

📣 Starting today, Fleets will be rolling out globally for everybody on Twitter! 🧵

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

damn, ima need another barber #ThankYouJack

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

Proud of all the teams at Twitter who have been working hard to increase our product development velocity. We’ve been busy! Here’s a recap of a bunch of things we’ve shipped or started experimenting with just in the past 2 weeks:

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

🧵 I’m delighted to announce that Twitter is starting to build a product development team in Ghana 🌍 🇬🇭

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

To the hard working (current and former) Tweeps out there who made all this happen: Thank you for pouring your heart and soul into this place ❤️

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

5 years

If you’re experiencing this: First of all, sorry that these issues were introduced and for the inconvenience. Two main issues: 1) The speed/lag issue has been identified & fixed this weekend, aiming to submit to AppStore tmrw 2) we’re investigating jump-ahead

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

8 years

Wow. Honored that @periscopeco was just named Apple's 2015 App of the Year. 😱🎉🍎❤🍾

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

I hope and expect that Twitter’s best days are still ahead of it. Twitter is one of the most important, unique and impactful products in the world. With the right nurturing and stewardship, that impact will only grow.

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@kayvz

3 years

6y at Twitter today! ⏱🕊

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

1 year

@bariweiss wow. did you even read the blog post? We never denied de-amplifying things. In fact we made clear that we do rank. We defined exactly what we meant by “shadow banning” (b/c there are many definitions) and made very clear that we didn’t do *that*…

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

me when jack tells people they can DM me to get verified

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@ndimichino

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Me when jack retweets the brand account

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

Thank you to @dickc for taking the bet on @periscopeco and bringing us to Twitter in 2015, and to @jack for the opportunities and trust you gave me since.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

Namaste! Starting today, Fleets are coming to India. If you’re in India, check it out and let us know what you think! #FleetsFeedback 🇮🇳

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

Today's very bittersweet, but I’m mostly filled with gratitude. I’m grateful because the experience of building Periscope was when I first learned how it feels to pour your heart & soul into building something and to feel reciprocated with utter love and satisfaction in return.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

this is not true. it's a bug on web and we're working on fixing it!

[Update: Being fixed] Twitter ditching ‘Latest’ chronological feed option on the web, still...

Update: Twitter’s Kayvon Beykpour says this is a bug that it’s working on fixing. The Twitter Support account says the...

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

mrs @pandemona and I are expecting our first baby in the next week! we’re filled with uncontainable excitement and also a little bit nervous!

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

Every day, people come to Twitter to see what’s happening. One of the unique things about Twitter is that “what’s happening” is fueled by people sharing their thoughts openly, through Tweets. But sharing your thoughts publicly can be intimidating! 🧵

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

5 years

@Julian_Epp Just in case anybody is confused here: this is fake.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

We’re winding down Fleets on August 3. We weren’t seeing the impact we’d like to see from a big bet, so we’re going to pivot our focus elsewhere 🧵

Goodbye, Fleets

On August 3, Fleets will no longer be available on Twitter.

blog.twitter.com

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

We’ve been listening to this feedback and working to create new capabilities that address some of the anxieties that hold people back from talking on Twitter. Today, in Brazil only, we’re starting a test (on Android and iOS) for one of those new capabilities. It’s called Fleets.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

I have a Twitter joke, but it still needs editing

Andy Welfle ✏️

@awelfle

4 years

I have a UX writing joke, but nobody reads those anyway

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

And congratulations to @jaysullivan . I’m grateful the universe brought us together and that you took the leap to join the team and take on new responsibilities quickly. I know Bluebird is in great hands under your leadership.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

For a splash for adorable on your timeline, trying liking a tweet with #TheMandalorian in it

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@kayvz

4 years

this little munchkin's name is Millie, and she's the newest member of the family. guessing this means we can start collecting royalties off the usage of her emoji likeness: 🐶

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@kayvz

2 years

@terrelljstarr Hi Terrell, we’ve enabled your ability to upload up to 10m video (this is our max limit as of now, unfortunately) at

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

@RepDougCollins @Twitter @seanhannity This isn’t censoring. We’re just encouraging people to read articles before sharing them (if we detect you haven’t). We do this across *any* article you attempt to share without reading. You are still able to share without opening the article if you want to by tapping once.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

5 years

Yesterday, we buried my grandfather. His name was Hossein Beykpour, but he was my Baba Joon. I’m so grateful that he brought the family to the United States just prior to the revolution in Iran and gave us all countless opportunities.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

proud of the spaces team (current and former) for building a service resilient enough to handle ~100k concurrent listeners for an hour with no issues.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

We’ve made a series of enforcement decisions on @realDonaldTrump ’s tweets and his account that are outlined in this thread.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

After over 5 years, we’re saying goodbye to the Periscope app (by March 2021). We shared detail on why we made this decision and some of the steps we’re taking to support the Periscope community through this transition in this blog post:

Farewell, Periscope

Today, we’re sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021. First off, we want to be transparent about why we’re making this…

periscope.medium.com

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

What other shows are as good at converting to sports fandom as Netflix’s “Drive to Survive”? I went from not knowing anything about @F1 to being hardcore obsessed and waking up in the wee hours to watch race day.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

yo @mosseri . let’s give the people what they want?

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

Somebody send these guys to Florida to talk to the beach goers.

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@protectheflames

4 years

"I stopped him and said, 'Look, this isn't a movie. You are not Will Smith in I Am Legend. Go home." This is the updated compilation of Italian Mayors losing it at people violating #Covid19 quarantine. Yes, subtitles are accurate.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

1 year

@bariweiss … You are characterizing any de-amplification as equating to shadow banning which is either a lazy interpretation or deliberately misleading. De-amplification is obviously necessary and even Elon himself believes so

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

1 year

Hate speech impressions (# of times tweet was viewed) continue to decline, despite significant user growth! @TwitterSafety will publish data weekly. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach. Negativity should & will get less reach than positivity.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

Jack said you’d verify me

status annoyicus

@medburnbook

4 years

give me a horror story from your specialty in five words or less

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

2 years

@BillyM2k @jack digging into this. sorry, and thanks for flagging

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

The racism and violence against the Asian community is sickening. Every day, another heartbreaking story about people traumatized, hurt or killed. The news from Georgia today makes me sick to my stomach. Pure evil. #StopAsianHate

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

8 years

. @MitchOates on #Periscope : DRONE SCOPE

Mitch oates - @MitchOates

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

⚡️🔜

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@alex193a

3 years

#Twitter is working on the ability to receive tips in #Bitcoin 👀

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

Life is so precious. Not taking every breath for granted is the truest, most under-rated cliche of them all.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

I know what you're thinking: “THIS SOUNDS A LOT LIKE STORIES!”. Yes, there are many similarities with the Stories format that will feel familiar to people. There are also a few intentional differences to make the experience more focused on sharing and seeing people’s thoughts.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

Thanks for saying 👋🏼 and for the feedback @elonmusk #OneTeam

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

As a tribute to @cbrewsayso , today we’re making “San Francisco Transit” available as a followable Topic. Throughout his life, and during his time at Twitter, Courtney was a passionate advocate for a safer and more equitable SF. Hope this helps others engage in the city as well.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

we're starting to roll out RECORDING 🔴 for Spaces on iOS!

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@XSpaces

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🔴 REC has started one feature you’ve been asking for is Spaces Recording and the ability to replay. Some hosts on iOS will now be able to record their Spaces and share it out to their audience.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

6 years

🚀📣 Really excited to launch Timestamps, an easy way to point people to the part within a live video that matters most.

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@kayvz

4 years

I left her alone for 5minutes ...

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

6 years

We don't "shadow ban". Read more here 👇

Setting the record straight on shadow banning

We do not shadow ban. And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.

blog.twitter.com

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

Our investigation into the security incident is still ongoing but we'll be posting updates from @TwitterSupport with more detail soon. In the meantime I just wanted to say that I'm really sorry for the disruption and frustration this incident has caused our customers.

Support

@Support

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Most accounts should be able to Tweet again. As we continue working on a fix, this functionality may come and go. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

8 years

🔥y 🏖ers Jeb 🌳 Ben 🚙👶 Mike Hucka🐝 🚕ly Fiorina Ted 🚢 ⛰ary Clint🔛

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

such a fantastic SNL skit.

Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla

4 years

Ryan Gosling is in the top 10% of all-time great SNL hosts. Born today in 1980. 💯 “Papyrus” [10/01/17]

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

5 years

Excited to bring @Twitter back to the Mac! Coming later this year.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

When i first joined Twitter almost 6 years ago, I tried to submit this as my photo for my ID badge. I was told it didn't meet the requirements because "a single person must be clearly discernible in your badge photo"

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

@CaseyNewton We’d like to. Takes two to tango

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

always better late than never! thank you @mosseri 🙏 and for our next tango... having shared tweets in Stories link back to Twitter? 😉

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@instagram

3 years

They said it would never happen… Twitter Card previews start rolling out TODAY. 👀 Now, when you share an Instagram link on Twitter a preview of that post will appear. 🙌

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

6 years

We've heard some questions recently about the status of Verification on Twitter, so wanted to address directly. Updating our verification program isn’t a top priority for us right now (election integrity is). Here’s some history & context, and how we plan to put it on our roadmap

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

「いま」を伝える新しい会話のかたち、「フリート」を日本でリリースしました！日本の皆さんは常に私たちの想像を超える新たな楽しみ方を見出してくれます。今回も創造性豊かな皆さんがどんなふうに私たちを驚かせてくれるのか、とても楽しみにしています！🇯🇵

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@XcorpJP

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新機能のFleets（フリート）が登場👋 Twitter上での新たな会話方法が誕生しました。日本の利用者の皆さん、順次ご案内予定です！

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

starting today, we're rolling out an early beta of a new conversational space that lets people talk together (live, with their voice!) on Twitter. only a small group can *start* a space for now (anybody can join), but we'll expand the group of folks who can use this over time.

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@XSpaces

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aye we’re live! what up y’all, we're the team behind Spaces––a small experiment focused on the intimacy of the human voice🧵

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@kayvz

8 years

Impeached

Nacho Carretero Molero

@carreteromolero

8 years

Apple is redrawing most of the food emoji in 10.2...the peach has lost all of it meaning though.

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@kayvz

6 years

May I present to you, @brucefalck #oneteam

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@kayvz

4 years

We rolled this out as a test starting today. Let's you easily see all the Retweets with comments of any tweet. Let us know what you think if you have access to the experience.

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@jinepiphany

4 years

there’s an option now to see quote tweets so you wont have to @ quotedreplies i luv it

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4 years

This morning we reported our largest quarterly year-over-year mDAU (monetizable daily active usage) growth rate since we started publicly sharing this #. Our work is far from done, but I’m very proud of all the teams that made these results possible ❤️

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@kayvz

5 years

Six years ago I followed @pandemona on Twitter because she seemed really cool. She didn’t follow me back, which I still give her a hard time for.

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@kayvz

3 years

And... I just found this. This was the moment we submitted Periscope to the App Store.

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@kayvz

5 years

#OneTeam grateful to have a real fashion icon among us

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@kayvz

3 years

@RachelTobac @yashar this is a good catch, thank you. we can't control the revealing of the address on Paypal's side but we will add a warning for people giving tips via Paypal so that they are aware of this.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

5 years

I’ve been here for only a few days and I’m already in love with Lagos and #NigeriaTwitter 🔥

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@kayvz

2 years

eternally grateful for you @jack . for your vision, generosity and wisdom. And for strengthening the company and our team so much over the last 6 years. ❤️

jack

@jack

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not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter

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@kayvz

4 years

Now rolled out on iOS. Coming soon on other platforms. What do you think?

Support

@Support

4 years

We’ve given conversations a makeover on iOS. When people you follow are in a conversation, you’ll see their replies in a new way in your Home timeline. This new layout makes it easier to see who's replying to who so you can join in on relevant conversations.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

3 years

Twitter now supports 2FA with physical security keys. Also, if you don’t have 2FA enabled on your account, would highly encourage you to do so!

Support

@Support

3 years

Protecting your account on all of your devices is important. We’ve updated two-factor authentication so you can now log in with your physical security key on Android and iOS, like on desktop. More on how to set up this added security for your account:

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Hard to believe it has already been 3 years since we launched @PeriscopeCo . Thank you to the amazing team that has poured their 💕 & soul into Periscope since day one. And thank you to the amazing community of broadcasters that bring the service to life every day.

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5 years

Something’s different I can’t tell wut

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@kayvz

5 years

“boys only want love if it’s torture” #Valentines #tbt

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@kayvz

3 years

we made it ❤️

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@kayvz

3 years

You can now change your conversation controls *after* you’ve already tweeted. So for example, if you decide after tweeting that you want to limit replies to only people you follow.. you can!

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

6 years

#oneteam today was really special. the energy, the curiosity, and the giddiness was palpable.

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

Legend. Thank you @jack .

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@jack

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I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here:

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4 years

Thank you for sharing this @yashar , and for helping raise awareness and empathy for what so many are going through right now.

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

4 years

1. I've never had a hard time sleeping. But the past three nights I have slept a total of 3 hours. I'm writing this so I can sleep. I am very angry. And I've realized during that having the space to be angry is a privilege because many people are too busy being terrified.

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7 years

Is this seriously how you plan to make our country "great again", @realDonaldTrump ?

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7 years

Iranian scientist bound for Boston to begin working on a cure for diabetes at Harvard was barred entry into US today

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3 years

I literally lol’d at this copy 👏🏽

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@kayvz

5 years

Thank you so much for hosting us in Abuja @NOIweala , and for inspiring us to visit Nigeria 🇳🇬 The impact you’ve had on the people of Nigeria is palpable and felt with every new person we met

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@kayvz

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Went down a rabbit hole listening to Chadwick Boseman’s interviews / speeches. He was such a beautiful, impressive and inspiring soul. That he was able to give so much and mean so much to so many during his lifetime is inspiring. A hero on and off the screen #WakandaForever ❤️

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

📣 Everybody on Twitter now has the ability to choose who can reply to their Tweets. By default, replies can come from anybody but you can also limit to just people you follow, or specific people you mention. Give it a try, and let us know what you think!

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

#ShotOniPhone

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Kayvon Beykpour

@kayvz

4 years

I am disgusted and heartbroken by what the Black community has to deal with in America. It’s 2020 and Black people are being murdered by the police. We need to fucking fix this, now #BlackLivesMatter

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