The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

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.

There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.

You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.

I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.