Monica and David

Earlier this week Twitter (TWTR) announced second-quarter revenues of $502M, up 64% year-on-year, which exceeded the average analyst estimate of $481.1M.  During the conference call, however, Twitter co-founder and interim CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledged that Twitter has problems, including that it is too complicated and people don’t really know how to get value out of it (these aren’t minor problems).

I HEART Twitter and am regularly surprised to see the gap between which articles are shared on Facebook versus Twitter.  One example, in today’s WSJ, there’s an article on GM and Ford flourishing out of the public limelight.  The article was shared 288 times on Facebook and only 28 times on Twitter.

Both of this week’s words come via Twitter (after years of Twitter, these were the first two words I’ve seen in tweets and didn’t know what their meaning).  The first entry is from New Yorker reporter David Grann discussing the patently absurd  suspension of Tom Brady.

shibboleths

1.      a custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important.

Speaking of cover-ups being worse than the original sin, our second word comes from Ms. Monica Lewinsky, in which she tweets about this week’s death Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.

busker

chiefly British

a person who entertains in a public place for donations