I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
BIZ STONEI never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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