Ben Mezrich Quotes

Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

Facebook has conquered much of the world.

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.

Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.

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

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

I joined Facebook in the summer of 2008 - before that I was at Mozilla.

By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.

From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site.

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

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

I have a Twitter and have followers from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming.

Let's be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool.

It's definitely a good way to stay in touch with your fans. The main reason I really use Instagram is because I want to hear their thoughts and what would they like to happen and see if I can make that happen. Which is a really nice way of being in touch with them all around the world.

Social media is a great way to get discovered in the industry because it's free, it's worldwide, and everyone's on it - a very powerful combination.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.

I had heard about Vine through Twitter, and my first video was of me freaking out on my couch. Back then I had 5 followers.

For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.