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.
BIZ STONEI 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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If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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 haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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