Salman Rushdie Quotes

The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

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.

I actually love Twitter, but I don't ... I never know what to ... I get a lot of my news from Twitter. But, I never ... I sometimes just don't think ... I think Twitter is full of a lot of talkers and not many listeners, so I'm happy to be one of the listeners.

I think Twitter is kind of fun, it's not deep and it never will be, but it's a great way to communicate one-liners and to sort of see what people are laughing about. It's a terrific source of misinformation.

I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information.

A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.

Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for breakfast, you couldn’t just go on the Internet and tweet it out. There was only one way to do it. You had to go outside and scream at the top of your lungs, 'I ate waffles for breakfast!' That’s why so many people ended up in institutions. They seemed crazy, but when you think about it, they were just ahead of their time.

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

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

Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

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.

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.

Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter.

Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.

When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.