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.
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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.
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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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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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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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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 think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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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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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Constraint inspires creativity
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