Evan Williams Quotes

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

Facebook was just John the Baptist. Twitter is the real deal.

I like to stay in touch with the fans via social media a lot. I really get involved through Twitter and Instagram, if anyone wants to see what I'm doing.

I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

I saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need.

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That's how Facebook started, after all.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

I don't tweet.

Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious.

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.

I think social media is very long-lasting. I just don't know the particular thing with Twitter.

It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much innovation. And the big challenge is, how do you think about resource allocation and priorities when you have so many great options? But wearing jeans instead of suits and popping into driverless cars has also been a lot of fun.

If I want to communicate with fans, usually I go on Twitter.