Evan Williams on what's behind Twitter's explosive growth
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Uploaded on Feb 27, 2009
http://www.ted.com In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves.
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Michael Kozlowski 4 years ago
Twitter is something that again shows the true face of our present society's attention seeking unstable egos. We have to know everything about everyone so we can compare our lives to others just to see if were worth more, less or about the same. Is this really how we want to spend our time? Besides, live news feeds were invented a long time ago. If you have something important to say to someone you gain enough courage to meet them personally or at least give them a call. Absolute crap.
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punkslashhippy 4 years ago
twitter's hugely successful but i have no interest in it.
interaction is better on a personal level, and if possible; over a pint : )
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samala51 2 weeks ago
While the technology is awesome to have it's exposed and strengthened our collective ADD and self-consciousness
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Forlorn Reaper 3 months ago
i use both Facebook AND Twitter..
they both have different uses, facebook is more of a personal touch.. while twitter is more connecting to people you barely know on a personal level while having no awkwardness.. and many other stuff..
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Britney2009beast 3 months ago
i love how this guy makes twitter sound so awesome. but we the people know exactly what living in a world of facebook and twitter is really like. it's lonely. i wanna live in a world where the only tweets we listen to is from actual birds.
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Noor Al-Hajri 4 months ago
Twttr Rules!
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Jason T. Wiser 7 months ago
Twittering or Tweeting
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Jim Jones 1 year ago
Haha, agreed but so is facebook and myspace as well lol
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Jim Jones 1 year ago
Yeah but Facebook actually has a deal with Twitter for use of their TwitFeed technology.
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Peter S. López 1 year ago
Good video. Just saw it. I have missed so much as much as I Tweet about Global News and stuff @Peta_de_Aztlan
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sixstring1991 1 year ago
i dont think he's the founder. he's the businessman with money who bought out the company at an early stage
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