3. Twitter: 140 Characters to Success
We came across the word “twitter” and it was just perfect. The definition was “a short burst of inconsequential information,” and “chirps from birds.” And that’s exactly what the product was.
—Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter
A Little History
Twitter started as a brainstorming session in 2006 when a group of board members at the podcasting company Odeo gathered with Mexican take-out in a children’s park. The team involved included Jack Dorsey, who, over his burrito, came up with the idea of developing a texting or Short Message Service (SMS)-like system for communication between small groups of people. The ...
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