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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
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
I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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Newspaper People Thinking Trouble Writing
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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Contains Information Links News Simple
I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Age Care Curious Writing
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
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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Asking Different Networking Thinking Update
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
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Interesting Pedestal Way
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
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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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
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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College Environment Needs Psychological
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running

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