Press

• Nathan Schneider, Here’s my plan to save Twitter: let’s buy it (The Guardian, 2016.09.29)
• Albert Wenger, I would contribute to this idea by @ntnsndr in a heartbeat (2016.09.29)
• Twitter should huddle with the Green Bay Packers while weighing M&A options (MarketWatch, 2016.09.30)
• Cory Doctorow, Proposal: turn Twitter into a user-owned co-op (Boing Boing, 2016.10.04)
• kieran, #BuyTwitter: Could Twitter Become A Co-Operative Business? (#now, 2016.10.04)
• The Twitter we <3 is never going to make Wall Street happy. It’s a public service & should be a non-profit! (@AnonyOps, 2016.10.05)
• Johnny Haeusler, Was wäre, wenn Twitter uns gehören würde? (Wired.de, 2016.10.10)
• Nutzer träumen von Twitter-Übernahme (Spiegel Online, 2016.10.12)
• Pauli Olavi Ojala, Twitter could be the next Mozilla (The Startup, 2016.10.14)
• Press release: #WeAreTwitter Movement Wants to Acquire Twitter, Turn It Into User-Owned Cooperative (October 19, 2016)
• #WeAreTwitter, What If Twitter Were Owned by the Users Who Love It (YES! Magazine, 2016.10.19)
• Ingo Dachwitz, #WeAreTwitter: Initiative für ein Twitter in Nutzer*innenhand gestartet (Netzpolitik.org, 2016.10.19)
• Valerie, Encouraging Users To Invest In Twitter’s Future Together (#now, 2016.10.20)
• Patricia Dickson, #WeAreTwitter: User wollen Twitter kaufen (SRF, 2016.10.20)
• Vincent Körner, Kooperative statt Börse: Nutzer sollen Twitter kaufen (Neues Deutschland, 2016.10.20)
• Bernardo Parrella, Riprendiamoci Twitter, compriamolo tutti insieme: perché no? (2016.10.20)
• Paul Tamburro, Should Twitter Become User-Owned? #BuyTwitter Thinks So (Crave, 2016.10.21)
• Elisa Braun, Des internautes se portent candidats au rachat de Twitter (Le Figaro, 2016.10.21)
• Giuseppe Tripod, #WeAreTwitter: e se fossero gli utenti a comprare Twitter? (SmartWorld, 2016.10.21)
• Mauro Sandrini, #Twitter siamo noi. Compriamolo (IlFattoQuotidiano, 2016.10.21)
• Thomas Euler, The Case For #WeAreTwitter: Why Twitter-as-a-co-op might actually be a smart business idea (2016.10.24)
• Leila Marchand, Et si Twitter était racheté par ses utilisateurs? (Les Echos, 2016.10.24)
• Carolina Schwarz, Rettung oder Tod einer Plattform (taz.de, 2016.10.25)
• Rafael A. F. Zanatta, E se o Twitter fosse um bem comum? (Outras Palavras, 2016.10.25)
• Daniele Gambetta, #WeAreTwitter, la campagna per rendere Twitter una cooperativa in mano agli utenti (Fanpage.it, 2016.10.26)
• Roberto Ceccarelli, Occupy Twitter (Prismo, 2016.10.26)
• Bernardo Parrella, L’ascesa delle piattaforme cooperative – incluso Twitter? (Collaboriamo, 2016.10.26)
• Emmanuelle Delsol, #WeAreTwitter, et si les Twittos rachetaient Twitter? (L’Usine Digitale, 2016.10.27)
• Monica Nickelsburg, #WeAreTwitter campaign wants users to buy the platform and turn it into a co-op (GeekWire, 2016.10.27)
• Thomas Doennebrink, #BuyTwitter? German newspaper Taz has been there, done that. (P2P Foundation Blog, 2016.10.31)
• Niκος Smyrnaios, #WeAreTwitter ou comment sauver l’internet du capitalisme financier (Ephemeron, 2016.11.01)
• Douglas Rushkoff, Users trying to buy back Twitter from Wall Street. Long shot, but nice thought experiment (2016.11.01)
• Didier Jansen, Waarom Twitter door zijn gebruikers gekocht moet worden (2016.11.01)
• Martín Steinhagen, Die Twitter-Kooperative (Frankfurter Rundschau, 2016.11.04)
• Antony McMullen, Twitter catches a Platform Cooperative cab to New York? (LinkedIn, 2016.11.06)
• Klint Finley, Let’s Build the Next Twitter Like the Green Bay Packers (WIRED, 2016.11.07)
• John Hockenberry, Will Twitter Live to See the 2020 Election? (The Takeaway, 2016.11.08)
• Bernardo Parrella, Let’s Take Back Twitter, Please, (Global Voices, 2016.11.11)
• Patrick Stegemann, Wir kaufen uns Twitter (Deutschlandradio, 2016.11.16)
• Mark Latham, A global software users’ co-op could #BuyTwitter (Votermedia Democracy Blog, 2016.11.18)
• Ben Wurdmuller, Buying Twitter is a fairy tale. Here’s how a cooperative could build the next generation of social networks (2016.11.26)
• Alice Bonasio, Twitter is failing as a public company, but there are other ways to keep this bird aloft (Quartz, 2016.12.21)
• Davey Alba, 2017 is the year that Twitter learns to thrive or dies (Wired, 2017.01.01)
• Nithin Coca, Organising a people’s movement to #BuyTwitter (Mobilization Lab, 2017.01.06)
• Paul Mason, Why social media is like the railways – and must be saved (The Guardian, 2017.01.09)
• Twitter shareholders voice benefits of a co-operative (Financial Times, 2017.02.05) [pdf]
• Twitter as a co-op? It is a dream that is worthy of consideration (Financial Times, 2017.02.05)
• James McRitchie, #WeAreTwitter Record Date Approaches (Corporate Governance, 2017.03.24)
• Danny Fortson, Twitter fights investor plan to turn it into co‑operative (The Sunday Times, 2017.04.09) [pdf]
• Kurt Wagner, Of course, a bunch of Twitter users want to buy the company and turn it into a co-op (Recode, 2017.04.09)
• Rob Price, Twitter shareholders will vote on turning the company into a cooperative owned by its users (Business Insider, 2017.04.10)
• Lars Wienand, Twitter im Eigentum der Nutzer? – Aktionäre stimmen ab (Berliner Morgenpost, 2017.04.10)
• Maya Kosoff, A Group of Die-Hard Twitter Users Wants to Buy the Company and Turn It into a Co-Op (Vanity Fair, 2017.04.10)
• Maira Sutton, Could Twitter Users Own the Platform One Day? (Shareable, 2017.04.10)
• Stockholder Proposal Regarding a Report on Users Owning the Twitter Platform (Hacker News, 2017.04.10)
• MichaelTen, A bunch of Twitter users want to buy the company and turn it into a co-op. Could this happen to Reddit? (Reddit, 2017.04.10)
• Bret Kenwell, Twitter Proposal Seeks to Turn Company Into a Co-Op — Tech Roundup (The Street, 2017.04.10)
• Giving the squeaky tweet some grease (The Hustle, 2017.04.10)
• Twitter’s annual shareholder meeting to discuss if users can buy the company (Digit, 2017.04.10)
• Tim Maytom, Twitter board set to vote on turning the company co-op (Mobile Marketing, 2017.04.10)
• Dominik Bosnjak, Report: Twitter Might Become A User-Owned Cooperative (AndroidHeadlines, 2017.04.10)
• Could Twitter become a user-owned cooperative? (Cheddar, 2017.04.10)
• Sylvain Rollan, Et si Twitter devenait une coopérative détenue par les twittos? (La Tribune, 2017.04.11)
• James McRitchie, #BuyThisPlatform: Twitter Explores Co-op Capitalism (Corporate Governance, 2017.04.12)
• Margaret Heffernan, How workers can profit by taking control of technology (Financial Times, 2017.04.16) [cache]
• Samuele Bozzoni, Twitter: una cooperativa di utenti deciderà il piano di marketing? (Gli Stati Generali, 2017.04.19)
• Albert Wenger, Time to Explore Alternative Ownership Structures for Network Effects Businesses including Twitter (Continuations, 2017.04.24)
• Chuck, The Twitter Vote May 22, and the Radical Co-op Challenge (CoopMatters, 2017.04.30)
• Kyle White, Is Twitter about to ‘Exit to Democratic User Ownership?‘ (Co-operatives First, 2017.05.01)
• Eric Tegethoff, Could Twitter Become a User-Owned Co-op? (Public News Service, 2017.05.08)
• James McRitchie, A More Cooperative Based Twitter (Corporate Governance, 2017.05.09)
• Danielle Potter, #Twittercoop (Contemplating Co-ops, 2017.05.09)
• Facing the Facts (Syncubate, 2017.05.07)
• Jared Spears, Twitter users are trying to buy Twitter (Thoughts on Journalism, 2017.05.15)
• Matt Cropp, #BuyTwitter! Why (and How) Co-ops Should Support the Campaign (Co-op Water Cooler, 2017.05.15)
• Ed Mayo, Buy Twitter (HuffPost, 2017.05.16)
• Eric Scherman, There's an innovative move to have a user cooperative buy Twitter (Inc, 2017.05.18)
• Filene Research Institute, We Can #BuyTwitter? (Filene Fill-in, 2017.05.19)
• The #cooperative sector offers to support Twitter if shareholders agree Monday to explore user ownership (International Co-operative Alliance, 2017.05.19)
• Keith A. Spencer, Twitter shareholders set to vote on whether to convert company into co-op (Salon, 2017.05.21)
• Tim Worstall, Twitter Is Not A Utility So It Shouldn’t Be Run Or Regulated As One (Forbes, 2017.05.21) ♥
• Co-operatives UK in support of #BuyTwitter (BBC News UK only, 2017.05.22)
• Lynsey Barber, Twitter AGM: Should the social network become a co-operative? Two million Brits would back the idea as shareholders prepare to vote (City A.M., 2017.05.22)
• Noah Kulwin, Should Users Own Twitter? (Vice, 2017.05.22)
• Queenie Wong, Twitter shareholders reject proposal to study selling the company to its users (SiliconBeat, 2017.05.22)
• Marissa Lang, #BuyTwitter shareholder push fails, but supporters hold out hope (San Francisco Chronicle, 2017.05.22)
• Ed Mayo, 4% and 14% – report back on the #BuyTwitter vote and two key statistics (The Power of Co-operation, 2017.05.23)
• Maya Kosoff, Twitter Is Considering a Way to Make Users Pay (Vanity Fair, 2017.05.23)
• Robert Cyran, Posting on the commune (Reuters, 2017.05.23)
• Hannah Kuchler, Twitter investors reject motion to explore conversion to user-owned co-op (Financial Times, 2017.05.23)
• Sylvian Rolland, Twitter rejette l’idée de devenir une coopérative mais envisage un modèle premium payant (La Tribune, 2017.05.23)
• Jeff Thomas, Twitter is Unlikely To Become A Co-operative Any Time Soon (CCT News, 2017.05.24) ♥
• Angelo Young, Meet the tech activists who want to turn Twitter into a user-owned co-op (Salon, 2017.06.04)
• Jack Jenkins, The grassroots effort to rescue Twitter from the grips of Wall Street (and internet trolls) (Think Progress, 2017.07.14)
• Karlin Lillington, 'Buy Twitter' campaign gaining attention but can it succeed? (The Irish Times, 2017.09.28)
• Twitter should look at becoming a cooperative (Clearwater Times, 2017.06.16)
• Sylvain Rolland, Twitter rejects idea of becoming a cooperative but considers premium paid model (LA Tribune, 2017.05.23)
• Twitter investors reject motion to explore conversion to user-owned co-op (Financial Times), 2017
• #BuyTwitter Fails—For Now: Proposal for Twitter to explore co-op model fails, but supporters hold out hope (NRECA, 2017.05.25)