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Well I think what Twitter is best at,
is only the sum of the people that use it,
and I think as a technology it brings a lot of
immediacy to the conversation.
It allows people to interact in real time,
and allows a great mass of people to interact
and report from wherever they are,
and whatever they're doing.
So, I think that that really engages people
in a way like never before,
so you can be out witnessing something,
you can be out helping someone,
you can be in a hall of government,
and just talk about what you're seeing,
what you're experiencing.
And other people read that in real time,
and that may inspire them to act on their own.
And that may inspire them to blaze ahead
on matters that are important to them,
so, I think a tool like this just allows people
to immediately get into something that they're interested in,
and then share it.
And that sharing aspect gets more and more people interested.
And gets more and more people engaged.
And I'm really really excited about what technologies like this can do
for government, and getting more of the citizens engaged
into public action, and public policy,
and into that conversation of how
we structure our societies,
how we structure our cultures, and what we want to see in the world.
I really think it's a question of how people use it.
We like to listen to how our users are using the technology.
We like to establish patterns from that usage,
and then we make that easier.
So it's really a question of not what Twitter's going to be like
in the future, but how are you going to use it in the future.
What are you going to make of it?
We could add a bunch of features, and we could add
things that make it very interesting in this day and age,
but are those sustainable features?
Are those things that really last,
that last the long haul,
that last the the test of time.
We're not sure.
So we're taking our time.
And instead, we're just figuring out like
what are people asking for?
What do people need to make this a better experience for them,
to make communication better.
That's what we've built,
and that's what we make easier,
and that, I think, is really the genesis of twitter,
we notice that this behavior exists,
people want to share updates, in real time,
and want to fire them off,
so we built an application around that.
That's where we are today.
I think it's fantastic,
because my favorite aspect of Twitter
is when it sparks interaction,
face to face interaction,
when it sparks conservation.
So i love seeing that people are getting together
and using this as a spark
and then talking about their lives,
not talking about twitter
but talking about what's important to them.
What they experience during the day,
or how long they've been living in town,
or what they do.
I think it's fascinating,
I think it brings us all closer,
and I would love to see more of it.
And it's something that came orgainically
to the network,
This is not something that
Twitter incorporated, set up.
We didn't go around the world and say:
"You should have these meet-ups".
People just started to get together,
and they formed these meet-ups and organizations by themselves.
And that's the most inspiring thing to me
is that people can do that,
and they will do that
because they desire it so much.