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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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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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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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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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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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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People first. Technology second.
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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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