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 STONEThe two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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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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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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