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.
BIZ STONEI’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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 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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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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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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Embrace your constraints.
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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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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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