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Twitter co-founder Ev Williams: Youre selling attention

Published: Sept. 30, 2017, 5:30 p.m.

b'The Sunday Times\\u2019 tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ev Williams, chief executive of online publisher Medium and Twitter co-founder, to talk about upping Twitter\\u2019s character limit (2:20), the dark side of the Internet (3:40), the power of the web in politics (6:00), starting four companies (7:15), the idea behind Medium (9:35), the problem with the ad-based web (11:30), pivoting (13:15), putting up a paywall (14:55), cat videos vs investigative journalism (16:40), his new \\u201cpay-for-claps\\u201d model (19:10), the broken media (20:00), why it\\u2019s so hard to make money from content online (24:00), Twitter\\u2019s problem with \\u201ctrolls\\u201d (27:50), and anonymity (29:00), Silicon Valley\\u2019s awakening (30:55), and his worst day of work (34:30).

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