Quotes by Evan Williams

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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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The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up.

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I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

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Where you are defines what you're interested in.

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'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.

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I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

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I used to tweet about the most mundane things - like 'I just bought a soya latte' - but now I try and make it a bit more interesting.

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Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

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I mistrust anyone... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.

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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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I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.

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

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I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.

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I've done a lot of stupid things, but in most cases I can't complain about the outcomes.

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I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government.

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After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

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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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Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.

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Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

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My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the ...

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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 do...

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