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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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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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Ideas Mean Thinking
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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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Belief Failing Faith Personal
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
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 Running Technology
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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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
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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Creativity Design Perfect
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Answers Mind Open
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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Connection Experience Greatest Work
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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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Impact Person Sales Years
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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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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