Saturday, October 3, 2009

Twitter ~ Create something that you want to see in the world!


Evan Williams, chief executive of the popular microblogging service, said he's focusing on making the service more useful, not on earning revenue
Mr. Williams founded several companies before Twitter, including the Blogger service that he eventually sold to Google. One lesson he has taken from them all: “Create something that you want to see in the world,” not what some M.B.A. brandishing a business plan suggests.
“I am motivated by the world telling me I am going to fail,” Mr. Williams told journalists gathered in San Francisco.

Even after snagging $100 million in new funding from investors, Mr. Williams seems to feel no pressure to come up with a revenue model for his popular service.
According to him, the company is focusing more on building value using different approach, such as through the new Twitter Lists, which will allow anyone to create a custom list of Twitter accounts that can be shared publicly or privately.
While lists are one step towards taming the chaos of Twitter, a robust search tool is even more important.
In an interview after his keynote presentation, Mr. Williams acknowledged that the current Twitter search engine is too basic and the company has a “significant search team” working on improving it. The next goal is to eliminate the duplicates and other “noise” that come up in most search queries.
Mr. Williams said recently, the company is also releasing a tool for developers Friday that will allow geographic locations to be embedded in tweets.
So there is a lot to look forward in future!

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