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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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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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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 mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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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 Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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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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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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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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 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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