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.
BIZ STONEI 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 started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after 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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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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A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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