Twitter will be rolling out new changes and the users will now be able to download the entire history of tweets by the end of the year, said CEO Dick Costolo.
Speaking at the Online News Association conference and awards in San Francisco Friday, Costolo said: "The caveat is that this is the CEO saying this, not the engineer who's building this....[But it's] a priority we absolutely want to have out by the end of the year."
Costolo also reacted to complaints by many developers that Twitter had curtailed what developers did with their apps due to Twitter changing its API. This resulted aggregation and discovery start-up IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets to remove certain features.
Costolo said the he did not want to be "flip" but added, "It's become a little bit of, you know, 'I didn't get my homework done because Twitter changed their API.' The IFTTT... removing (Twitter Triggers) has absolutely nothing to do with any changes to our API, irrespective of how any change was rolled out."
Costolo said that Twitter might support real-time updates and information.
"Think about it....There are all sorts of amazing functionalities that third parties can build into Twitter. That's the general framework for where we're going," he said, according CNET.
He agreed that Twitter might have done a bad job in communicating the API changes.
One person Costolo wants to see on Twitter is NFL quarterback for the New England Patriots Tom Brady.
On the issue of regulation, he said that "there is no one-size-fits-all global solution regulating what people post on Twitte."
He hoped that Twitter was "valuable" to journalists and "Twitter was a great source for breaking news."
