If you’re on Twitter, what you’re saying is, ‘I’m important enough for you to care what I think.’
I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.
It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.
I try to stay off Twitter.
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.
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
I’m not on any social media. I know people who have met on Twitter and through Facebook. I had a friend, someone liked her photos on Instagram, and they started direct messaging each other and went out on a date! That’s so foreign to me.
Twitter was created as an open platform, an open communications ecosystem, and I hope it can stay that way. You have to be really careful not to let money get in the way of that.
I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.
I’ve noticed a lot of people are very bold and blustery on Twitter because it’s easy to do that with the poison keyboard and a hundred and forty characters.
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it’s actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it’s something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.
It gets crazy in my mind sometimes but the reason why I like to express so much positivity on my Twitter is because I think we all are battling evil thoughts. I think it’s important to not ignore them but to try to understand where they are coming from and get through them instead of suppressing them.
I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.
If someone annoys you on Twitter, check their feed first: you need to know if they’re crazy.
I’m always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.
I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.
I’m not on Twitter, and I don’t read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There’s this weird separation between your private and public persona.
My friends found out that I was writing a book on Twitter. It didn’t seem worth mentioning over dinner. They’re all so successful themselves.
What do you think Jesus would twitter, ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone’ or ‘Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.’
While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.
With Facebook and Twitter, everyone wants to publicize their innermost truths.
The only time that I really go on Twitter is to promote, because what sucks is there’s some weird trolling going around. Even if you are well-intentioned, there’s some mean people behind a keyboard.
Twitter didn’t make up the hashtag. Twitter didn’t make up the retweet. It’s our users. And people started using them so much that we decided to weave them into the product. I can’t think of another company that has taken its users’ actions and said, ‘We’re going to make them useful to everybody.’
I have this game with my friends: When we go out, if ‘Treat yo’ self’ is tagged within the last six minutes on Twitter, they buy lunch. If not, I buy. They always buy.
Twitter has always been that refreshing place where I can quickly find out what is going on in my tech world. I follow mostly entrepreneurs and VCs – some who I know and some who I don’t know. I have a few companies in my feed. But no newspapers, no magazines, and no mainstream media.
When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.
Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It’s like getting a greeting card every single day.
In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know – which is why I stay away from social media – I’m terrified of it.
There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don’t get what’s happening.
That’s one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That’s only one thing you can do with it, but it’s one of the things I find most entertaining about it.
The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better.
I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.
It’s almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There’s only so much trouble I can get in.
Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook, it’s so amazing because years ago, when I was growing up and watching movies, there was no way for us to interact with filmmakers at all. You could send a letter, and you’d never know if you were going to hear back or not.
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.
On my iPhone 3GS, I use ‘Instagram’, ‘Twitter’ and ‘Touch’.
With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how information is delivered has changed tremendously. The landscape for news is a different place, and people have to accept that.
With Twitter, it’s a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn’t heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody’s already done some version of what you’re trying to do.
For the most part, I don’t have a Facebook page; I don’t Twitter.
What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.
I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company – a service – that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.
I can think of the number of people who were like, ‘I will never get a cellphone because I don’t want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don’t want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that’s not for me.’ And this is just the natural progression of things.
We have a core value here at Twitter that says we want to defend and respect the user’s voice. And that’s important to us on a global basis. Someone doesn’t sign up for a service expecting that their sign up information is going to be handed over without them being asked… We’re going to defend our users’ rights.
I only tweet about food and silly things, but it’s really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I’m always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety.
I love Twitter.
Once you get my snark going, I’ll just start snarking it up all over Twitter.
I think that people in the phase between being someone’s kid and being someone’s parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you’ve never been able to before.
The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed… This is a different world.
I don’t really see myself getting a Twitter account. Nothing against it. I get it. I especially get it for businesses.
Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter – I steer away from them. They’re alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.
Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn’t stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.
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.
