The power and beauty of Twitter

Here are Twitter’s key people (Jack Dorsey @jack, Biz Stone @biz, Evan Williams @ev, and Dick Costolo @dickc) capturing the essence of what makes Twitter so special, so different, so important.

Twitter may be the greatest communication platform in human history to-date

As we make our way through 2013, I continue to find people who dismiss Twitter, saying "I'm not interested in hearing what someone had for lunch." Like any technology, uses for Twitter run the spectrum from useful to useless, from meaningful to banal, from the sublime to the ridiculous.

However, I think more people would benefit from Twitter if they understood what it represents. I find Twitter to be one of the greatest communication platforms ever invented. I think it takes a rightful place at the top of an august assembly of the most significant paradigm-shifting communication platforms in human history.