Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution: Communication, Connections, and Immediacy—140 Characters at a Time

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Acknowledgments

This report came about not only through much use and

observation of Twitter and related services, but also

through conversations with dozens of people. Particular

thanks to the following for their time and insights:

John Battelle, Michael Bleigh, Paul Buchheit, Lili Cheng,

Matt Cutts, Jack Dorsey, Frank Eliason, Marc Hedlund,

Rachel Holden, Tony Hsieh, Joi Ito, Brian Jepson, Morgan

Johnston, Ashok Kuppusamy, Loic Lemeur, David Naffis,

Lee Odden, Jodee Rich, David Sacks, Larry Schwartz,

Biz Stone, Aaron Strout, Danny Sullivan, Crystal Taylor,

Nathan Torkington, and Evan Williams.

Contributors

The report writers and editors:

■ Sarah Milstein (http://twitter.com/sarahm), a

consultant on Web 2.0 and editorial strategies, and

an MBA candidate at the Haas School of Business

at UC Berkeley, was previously the chief publishing

evangelist for O’Reilly Media. Prior to that, Milstein

was O’Reilly’s managing editor, senior editor, and

editor, leading the development of the Missing

Manuals, a best-selling series of computer books

for non-geeks. She’s also written for the series,

co-authoring Google: The Missing Manual (1st ed

2004; 2nd ed 2006). Before joining O’Reilly in 2003,

Milstein was a freelance writer and editor, and a

regular contributor to The New York Times. She

was also a program founder for Just Food, a local-

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