Biz Stone: Twitter’s Role in Egypt Revolution Overstated and Mark Zuckerberg has Multiple Personality Disorder

Biz Stone isn’t drinking his own Kool-Aid.

On Howard Stern this morning the laid-back and intelligent co-founder of Twitter said that the role of his company in the revolution in Egypt was overblown.

“Do you believe that Twitter overthrew the Egyptian government?” Stern asked.

“No. People did that,” Stone replied.

“Right, but don’t you think Twitter facilitated that?”

“Yeah and I think the telephone helped bring down the Berlin Wall but I don’t think they said the telephone brought down the Berlin Wall.”

Another great nugget from the interview is that when Stone and fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams went to Facebook HQ in Palo Alto to discuss a deal with Mark Zuckerberg the meeting was “awkward.”

“It was weird. He was one guy but it almost seemed that he had 12 people in his head.”

The $500-million deal with Facebook never went through because Stone and Williams had no intention of selling. Nonetheless they sent a cordial thank you email to follow-up. Stone says they told Zuck that they believed Twitter could continue to grown on its own, provide a unique service to businesses and be a positive force in the world.

Elsewhere in the interview Stone told Stern that despite the hype over his company he earns a fixed salary, has a mortgage and thinks the Twitter verification system sucks.