Twitter CEO on No-Tweet Clauses in Celebrity Contracts October 28, 2009

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/21/A_Conversation_with_Twitter_CEO_Evan_Williams

Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams and Federated Media's John Battelle discuss the trend of Hollywood actors and professional athletes having "no-tweet" clauses in their contracts.

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Twitter co-founder Evan Williams talks with Federated Media's John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit about current trends on the Internet and the future of one of the most popular social web services online. - Web 2.0 Summit

Evan Williams is chairman and chief product officer of Twitter, Inc. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Pyra Labs, who created Blogger in 1999. In 2003, Blogger was purchased by Google, where Williams worked as a product and engineering manager until late 2004.

Williams was raised on a farm in Nebraska and dropped out of college as a sophomore, prior starting his first Internet company in 1994.

John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author. Currently founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing, he is also a founder and executive producer of conferences in the media, technology, communications, and entertainment industries and "band manager" with BoingBoing.net.