Even Twitter’s co-founder says 12 hours a day is too much
Posted Feb 23, 2012 06:11:59 AM.
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MONTREAL – To those of you who tweet and follow others on Twitter all the livelong day, the co-founder of the immensely popular social networking site has a message for you.
Stop it!
Christopher Isaac “Biz” Stone says some people admit to logging onto Twitter for 12 hours straight.
Stone says that sounds unhealthy to him.
He says he’d prefer people visit the site frequently rather than sacrifice their lives to it.
Stone told a Montreal business audience yesterday that even he is amazed at the reach of the website, which he said that he and his partner Evan Williams figured would never be used for anything other than a little fun.
He said that at first no one thought Twitter was a good idea — or would be useful.
But the site now links millions of people around the world and has been used as a tool to spur social change — like in the case of the so-called Arab spring, triggered by pro-democracy movements in the Middle East.
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