Evan Williams Talking About Twitter at TED 2009

by Scott Beale on February 27, 2009 · 3 comments

Here’s Twitter co-founder Evan Williams giving his talk at this year’s TED Conference.

via Adam Jackson on Twitter

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1 adam jackson February 27, 2009 at 1:22 pm

@ev really lays it out well. Very well said with excellent photos. Thanks for the link Scott.

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2 Doctor Popular February 27, 2009 at 2:55 pm

Actually, I kind of thought Ev’s talk was sort of… adorably bad.. but I want to stress the adorable part. It was a topic with a lot of potential, but he may have just been a little nervous to keep it interesting.

Also of note is Nightline’s recent Twitter expose, which I thought was actually kind of good: http://icanhaz.com/nightline

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3 adam jackson February 27, 2009 at 3:06 pm

Thanks DocPop for linking to my YouTube Video :)

Yeah and I do see your point but Ev has always been that way. It’s just not his strong point (speaking) and that’s why in interviews, Biz generally takes over when ev has issues putting the right words out there.

Regardless of his speaking ability, Evan Williams highlighted many things that basically shutup every “Twitter hater” out there. Those that say there’s no value and that’s it’s full of idiotic conversations are immediately hushed when they see what good it has done. the info was spot on, the presentation was so-so.

Regardless, I still love Twitter and the team that invented it.

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