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Staggering. took three years for you to get the first tweet to the billionth tweet. it now takes users one week to send a billion tweets. did you ever imagine in your wildest dreams that you would have that kind of spread? >> it's extremely humbling to see how quickly the velocity of the service, how it's taken off. and it gets faster and faster every single year, ever ever single day that goes on. i think early on we knew how engaging it was and how magical it felt, but we had no idea what the users would do with it. >> you actually have overdone the words, we should make you speak in 140 cha...

Stone and jack dalton and in this case cristophe from "the new york times." this has come five years on now and the statistics are staggering. took three years for you to get the first tweet to the billionth tweet. it now takes users one week to send a billion tweets. did you ever imagine in your wildest dreams that you would have that kind of spread? >> it's extremely humbling to see how quickly the velocity of the service, how it's taken off. and it gets faster and faster every single year, ever ever single day that goes on. i think early on we knew how engaging it was and how magical it fel...

That people can communicate with one another, rally one another, to common objectives. it's been interesting to see how the social media tools like twitter and facebook have been used differently in different con texts. in egypt, tunisia, they were powerful organizing tools for those who were championing change and democracy. in libya, seems that the opposition has coalesced without much reliance on those tools. we're seeing different -- different models and different experiences and different places. >> ambassador rice, thank you very much. >> thank you. i now want to bring in the co-founde...