Evan Williams
Evan Williams
Evan Clark Williamsis an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. Williams was previously Chairman and CEO of Twitter, one of the internet's top ten websites...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth31 March 1972
CityClarks, NE
CountryUnited States of America
Twitter is a very easy way to keep in touch.
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Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.
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I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government.
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Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.
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I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.
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Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.
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Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.
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A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.
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People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.
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If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution.
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Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.
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My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.
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People are fans of Dunkin' Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there every day. Dunkin' Donuts is using Twitter to communicate with those people. There are people who are finding value in that. There's thousands of people, I don't know how many thousands now, following Dunkin' Donuts.
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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.