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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

~Biz Stone

Topics: Before Culture Doing Doing Good First Good Had Hired Impact Make Our Person Sales Sure Twitter Years

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A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

~Biz Stone

Topics: Belief Fail Invested Personal Personally Working You

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I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.

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Topics: Barriers Become Blog Blogging Engage Entry Interacting Low More Obsolete Participate People Still Think Ways Web Will

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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.

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Topics: About Communication Creativity Emerges Goal How Infrastructure Kind Less New New Kind Our People Personal Provide Relevant Should Support Than Then Twitter Use View

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I think when people twitter 20 or 30 times per day, that's too much. They are boxing everyone else out, and people stop following them because they need a break.

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Topics: Because Boxing Break Day Else Everyone Everyone Else Following Much Need Out People Per Stop Them Think Times Too Too Much Twitter I Think

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The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of the over five billion mobile phones on this planet, because they all have SMS built in. So we said it has to be within 160 characters, all the tweets.

~Biz Stone

Topics: Because Billion Built Characters Entirely Every Five International Limit Mobile Mobile Phones Over Phones Planet Said Single Texting Tweets Twitter Wanted Within

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You can provide a short-format content, and it can grow, and it can spread virally across the entire Twitter system, and it can contain within it a link to something that's much longer, that's a long essay or that's a video.

~Biz Stone

Topics: Across Contain Content Entire Essay Grow Link Long Longer Much Provide Something Spread System Twitter Video Within You

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Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.

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Topics: Because Become Doing Either Engaging Essentially Indicate Interesting Many People So Many People Things Top Tweet Us Users You

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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

~Biz Stone

Topics: Affirmation Basically Been Behavior Day Every Every Single Day Exhibit Give Good Me Most People Prove Rewarding Simple Single Single Day Smart Them Thing Tool You

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Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.

~Biz Stone

Topics: Around Doing Doors Google Just Know Mistake Obviously Open Open Doors People See Supposed Used Walk Were Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: March 10th, 1974

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