Evan Williams Quotes

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

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 great.

Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.

Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.

In one sense, Facebook is very focused as an address book, as efficient communication. It's like e-mail or like IM or something like that. And we do those things, too, but we do so much more. We try to focus on the whole world and all the things that people are interested in, rather than just people to people, or one to one communication.

Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

Somebody was, like, what's your favorite thing about Twitter? And I was, like, Twitter. And they're like what's the worst thing about Twitter? And I was, like, Twitter.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

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

I would consider...Google Plus a push technology. It's closer to Twitter than to Facebook.

I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

On the personal level, the people that follow you on Twitter are always nice to hear from.

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

I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.

I love Twitter.

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.

Twitter is a blessing and a curse at the same time.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.

Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you're an active Twitter user, there's nothing happening, big or small, that you won't know right away.

Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.