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Wall Street is a flutter over the future of Twitter I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update twitter is looking for a new leader the network's chief executive dick costolo announced he's stepping down and co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey is stepping in as interim CEO on July first while the company looks for a permanent replacement Dorsey will be juggling double duty as CEO of square the mobile payments company he founded Costello is popular among employees but Wall Street investors have been very critical since Twitter wasn't growing its monthly active users fast enough that's because Twitter can be a little confusing to the non initiated and even with revenues doubling year-over-year Twitter was not turning a profit for the stock and that's what investors care about so good luck to whoever comes next pleasing investors and getting more people on Twitter will not be an easy task just please don't turn Twitter into some sort of watered-down version of Facebook now rapper Snoop Dogg has put his hat in the ring to be the next CEO and busters should be pleased he'll have his mind on his money and his money on his mind dropping faves like its hot reat whistling the retweets but I'm worried he just let the network go up in smoke and before the CEO switch up news twitter did announce something else it's removing the 140 character limit on direct messages when your privately chatting with someone you can type as much as you want this change begins next month but normal tweets are still limited to 140 characters as usual let's switch gears to 3d if you want to make your own 3d printed items there are new types of computers to get you started last year HP released the sprout PC it's a way to scan objects and it also projects images on a touch map below where the keyboard typically sits it lets you scan anything and create a digital file in your computer to send to a 3d printer the issue is that scanning isn't exactly easy but now HP came up with a turntable and software that automates the whole scanning process it tilts the object to help you get the best scan from all angles the little capture stage costs three hundred dollars and the sprout PC is cell it's nineteen hundred dollars and get ready for a slew of video game news in the next few days as the big III video game expo kicks off in Los Angeles Microsoft has the first big announcement Monday morning expect much of the talk to be around halo 5 it's one of the most anticipated games coming this year and I'm sure Microsoft is going to give us more reasons on why a Windows 10 PC is going to make your xbox experience better because Windows 10 this coming out next month Sony will follow with its PlayStation news later in the day and Nintendo has its news conference on Tuesday we'll have to see if Nintendo will talk about its mobile game plans or maybe give us a clue on its mysterious new console in the works that's it for this tech news update there's plenty more at cnn.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey