You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
BIZ STONESo 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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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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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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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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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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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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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