In this short video shot by Fortune magazine, Twitter CEO Evan Williams explains the vision for his company which captured a lot of attention but which has yet to post a profit. When Williams says, "We don't consider ourselves to be a social network...I'm not sure what the right category is for us" it floored me. With all that has been said and written about what Twitter is and is not it's interesting to hear what the top guy running it actually thinks.
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