Twitter is the perfect complement to television. TV has always been social. You talk to the person you’re sitting next to on the couch. You talk to the people you’re – you know, at work with the next day around the proverbial water cooler. Dick Costolo Read Quote
When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale. Dick Costolo Read Quote
One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else. Dick Costolo Read Quote
I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what’s really going on. Dick Costolo Read Quote
What launched me toward Feedburner? Well, the Internet happened. When I saw Mosaic, I thought, ‘I gotta do this.’ I founded and sold a few companies. Feedburner was my fourth. Dick Costolo Read Quote
Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes. Dick Costolo Read Quote
If there’s ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it’s Twitter. Dick Costolo Read Quote
You can choose to listen to one end of the spectrum or the other on Twitter, just like you can on television. But hopefully what we’ve done is given a voice to that broad middle ground. Dick Costolo Read Quote
The interesting thing about the top 200 to 300 tweeters – a lot of them are musicians, actors, etc. LeBron James, etc. I think Lady Gaga is number one. But! They’re not all celebrities. There’s ‘CNN Breaking News.’ And the ‘New York Times.’ And other brands like Gary Vaynerchuk, who aren’t really that known outside that world. Dick Costolo Read Quote
People have Plato’s form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don’t conform to at all. I’ve given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don’t care. Dick Costolo Read Quote
