We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn't really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren't as interested in that.

With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.