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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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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas 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 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
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
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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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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Bird Ideas Moving
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
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
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
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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Designed Director Guy PIcked Wanted
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
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
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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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
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
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People

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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