I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact. Biz Stone More Quotes by Biz Stone More Quotes From Biz Stone With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow. Biz Stone easy 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? I 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. Biz Stone writingpeoplethinking 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. Biz Stone sales-personimpactyears The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running. Biz Stone problempurposerunning You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed. Biz Stone emotional-investmentinvestmentemotional 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. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone. Biz Stone technologynew-yorkgiving 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. 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. Biz Stone writingmeanideas Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context. Biz Stone storiespeopleneeds You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated. Biz Stone get-betterover-yousimple You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much. Biz Stone twopeoplethinking When you think about email or IMing, why aren't you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you're online, why aren't you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there's not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it's fine. Biz Stone couplewritingthinking 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. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it. Biz Stone phonesmeaningfulthinking We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects. Biz Stone creatingpeopleideas 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. Biz Stone technologyrunningpeople We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc. Biz Stone spungrew There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts. Biz Stone inputpeopleideas I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone. Biz Stone phonescellsthinking 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. Biz Stone social-networksocialthinking When you think of a social network, you have these two-way interactions: "Are you my friend? Yes? No? Yes?" Like LinkedIn, it's business oriented, but it's all about establishing connections. You connect to me through my other connections, and that sort of thing, and you sort of define who your friends are. Twitter doesn't have that. Biz Stone connectionstwothinking There are a lot of sources of information out there, so why don't you curate for yourself a list, like a real timeline of information, like the New York Times, or JetBlue, or your friends, or this comedian, or this guy who pretends to be a cat, or whatever it is, whatever entertains you, whatever you find useful. Biz Stone catrealnew-york
