Quotes About Digital

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

I don't read Twitter.

I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

It's really cool now that we have Twitter and Facebook, and it's cool that people can post their thoughts and stories and just constantly on their timelines.

I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious.

The minute you hear the word 'share,' you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they've just discovered.

Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.

In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone.

I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own.

I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like my characters would actually sound. It was a very surreal thing to see come to life digitally!

Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark Knight.'

What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.

I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.

Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

News seems to travel far more quickly on Twitter and Facebook than through search.