Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

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.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.

There are a lot of sources of information out there, so why don't you curate for yourself a list, like a real timeline of information, like the New York Times, or JetBlue, or your friends, or this comedian, or this guy who pretends to be a cat, or whatever it is, whatever entertains you, whatever you find useful.

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