I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

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

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.

Embrace your constraints.

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

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.