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.
BIZ STONEWhen 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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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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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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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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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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 normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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