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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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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
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
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
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
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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Ideas Mean Writing
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
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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Network Social Thinking
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
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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

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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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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