Ethan Zuckerman Quotes
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According to Twitter 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.
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The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
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It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
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People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.
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I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.
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On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.