“Most of the meaning and activity in our lives comes from the things we do for free, or the choices we make about work, not the financial exchanges we do to support ourselves.
“Most of the meaning and activity in our lives comes from the things we do for free, or the choices we make about work, not the financial exchanges we do to support ourselves.
“But success keeps going to people who build new icons, not to those that seek to replace the most successful existing ones.
“If you are willing to satisfy people with good enough, you can make just about everybody happy. If you delight people and create change that lasts, you’re going to offend those that hate change in all its forms. Your choice.
Update: I changed the title after realizing I got carried away and that to most, easy access to famous people isn’t the #1 reason to use Twitter.
For a guy who is seriously thinking about leaving Twitter for greener pastures, this post doesn’t carry much weight. But I wanted a permanent record for my epiphany. Chalk one up for the archives.
With a little searching, Twitter provides easy access to famous people.
Here are some famous (or not) Twitterers that I follow or vice versa. Whether they read my tweet fodder has yet to be proven.
MC Hammer
Seth Godin
Robert Scoble
Sara Bareilles
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
Ryan Newman
Patrick Wilson
Guy Kawasaki
Stephen Colbert
Note: Some of these may be fake accounts. I have not verified any of them.
“Free undermines the typical human’s proclivity to ignore every offer.