Long-term candidates for Dick Costolo's replacement are group revenue head Adam Bain and former Goldman Sachs banker and chief financial officer Anthony Noto, as well as outsiders such as Instagram chief executive Kevin Systrom and the CEO of Yahoo and former Google executive, Marissa Meyer.
For Twitter, a season of crisis and difficult choices is opening, at the end of a long period in which the company, and those who ran it, had not seemed capable of relaunching their business or performance on the Stock Exchange. Among the various scenarios that open up for the relaunch of the microblogging company, the most sensational would be the one that would lead to the acquisition by one of Twitter's rival giants: Google and Facebook above all.