Evan Williams Quotes

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

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

I'm rubbish at Twitter.

I've never done Twitter.

The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

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.

When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.

'What is Twitter?' has always been a tough question to answer.

Twitters

What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about my rabbit a lot.

I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.

Lots of people do that silly tweeting.

Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.

I love Twitter. What a great tool to speak directly to people.

I got Twitter like two months ago, checked it out a bit more, and I concluded the only thing Twitter I'm interested in following is Nick Stoller.

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.

When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, 'Huh, I think Facebook should be scared.' In part, because it's a really elegant product. It's very fast.

While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.

I love Twitter.

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

I think Twitter is great.

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.

I'm obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.