Ryan North Quotes

I think social media is... really cool in the sense that I don't think that a writer like me would've found a readership if maybe Instagram wasn't there.

I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.

We created the 'Like' feature in FriendFeed because I realized that people wanted an easy way to let others know that they saw what their friends posted and appreciated it. Putting in those simple little gestures is very powerful.

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.

When people are making the decision to put a piece of content online, they really do truly want to get it in front of the largest audience.

I don't read Twitter.

Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion.

My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.

Digg will serve as a means of gathering metrics for third party websites, providing them insights into who's digging their content, who they are spreading it to.

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

Social media is key to promoting the editorial posts on my website.

YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work.

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.

I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.

Just as performers, I think you'd be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.

The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Facebook really has made the world a better place.