Twitter is really just about unlocking the value of human spirit really. What you see when you look at Twitter during and after an earthquake, what we’re really seeing is people helping one another, coordinating in real time using a tool that didn’t exist before we made Twitter. It’s the ability to essentially move just like a flock of birds can move around an object in real time, and it can look very choreographed and beautiful. They are really just basing that moving off of a set of rudimentary communications and feedback. And that’s what Twitter provides. It’s this very simple utility that allows people to very quickly communicate with one another in these short bursts, and in such a way coordinate themselves in real time so they can move as one like a flock of birds. So when you talk about all these different scenarios you’re really just talking about people doing what they would naturally do but using this new tool that gives them an enhanced form of communication.
Twitter founder Biz Stone in an interview with Mother Jones magazine on the “meaning” of Twitter, from his point of view, and the appeal of social networking.
