Twitter Focused On Building Global Town Square (And Dodging IPO Questions)

Twitter’s CEO is great at dodging IPO questions – so great, in fact, we’ve coined a new term: Costolo’d.

It means openly and unapologetically refusing to answer a question no matter how hard one is pressed. It isn’t elegant and it doesn’t even ATTEMPT to evade, it’s a bold (and mildly mocking) reiteration of whatever was said just before even though it so very obviously does not answer the question at hand.

Want to know when you’re being Costolo’d? Read on!

In an interview on Monday with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television, Costolo spoke of user

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