Thomas Middleditch Quotes

When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.

We do live in this age of new media.

The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.

The dawn of the 21st century marked the emergence of the social media age.

Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.

Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

Since the iPhone, the most transformative products have not been gadgets but services. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have changed lives, but they didn't launch to massive fanfare.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

Tech is a key driver of social and economic change, and around the world, women like me are transforming businesses, industries, and communities.

Social media has democratised platforms of expression so much - now a child can have a very loud voice.

It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.

I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.

The funny thing about Facebook and Twitter is, you can go on there and see what's going on in the world without watching the news. I get so much news off of social media. I think it's cool. It's changed everything, not just music. It's changed the world. It definitely is a good thing. I don't really know what I think of it yet more than that. I haven't really sorted that out for myself.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Music can't change the world.