The co-founder of Twitter talks about how the service was used in Egypt to help organize the protests, and about the rumors that the popular microblogging service could be purchased by Google or Facebook.
"Twitter is not for sale. We don't have a shingle out on our front that says 'Twitter. For Sale.' We're not for sale and we haven't been. We're very, very interested in building an independent company."
"Yeah, we're not we're not valued at $10 billion. That's just what people are writing in the newspapers, which unfortunately has the negative aspect of my friends thinking I must have $10 billion. So hey, I just read in the Wall Street Journal that you have $10 billion."
"When Obama tweeted that he had won the presidency. And that was just, you know, sort of a mind-blowing thing because it was this historic presidential election and here we had the man himself tweeting and acknowledging it, and for us that was just a big acknowledgment of our work."
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Twitter's Biz Stone
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/16/133775340/twitters-biz-stone-on-starting-a-revolution
"There are always ways around shutting down technology. People do find ways," Stone says. "Together with Google we allowed for the phone lines to become a way for allowing people to get their voices out. It is important for us to remain a neutral technology provider, but we do believe that the open exchange of information is very important and can have a positive impact on the world. That's a mission that we subscribe to and that we are committed to."
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