Twitter and the Power of Giving People a Voice
Williams said during his interview at the Web 2.0 Summit on Wednesday was his comment about how Twitter “lowers the barriers to publishing almost as far as they can go.” Williams said the impact of lowering these barriers is only beginning to be felt, and I think he’s right.
The answer came in response to a question from the audience about how Twitter empowers people to publish and effectively act as journalists, and Williams said lowering the barriers of entry into publishing is something he has worked on for most of his career (since he also founded Blogger, one of the leading early blog-publishing platforms, later sold to Google), and that he has done so based on his belief that “the open exchange of information has a positive effect on the world.” In a nutshell, Williams said, this is what the Internet as a whole allows us to do, and society is still trying to figure out all the repercussions that stem from “everyone having a voice.”