Dick Costolo Quotes

Can you imagine watching 'All in the Family' and having an outlet like Twitter? Where you could discuss it while it's happening? I think that would be a really interesting thing.

With TV, you film something and have to wait six months to scrawl through Twitter to see what people think.

I do like Twitter. Writing is a solitary pursuit, and it can get lonely. I like to go into Twitter for a short period of time, communicate with clever friends, and then switch it off. That's perfect for me.

I can tweet before going to bed at midnight or 1 and know that they're up and at 'em, and they're going to have to respond.

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

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

I always live tweet 'SNL.'

I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.

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.

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

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

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

Television is the original social network. Consumers love great television, but they also love talking about television. Sharing with friends the thrill of the last episode, debating what will happen next, working to enlist friends to watch the same shows that you love.

Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr provide an unparalleled ability for people to stay connected in new and unique ways.

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.

At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.

I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet.

I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did.

I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

I love a lot of television and live-tweet a lot of TV.

I'm a big tweeter, especially when 'Scandal' is on, and I started tweeting some other shows.

Everyone posts everything in real time as it happens.