What you’re holding in your hands is a set of guidelines. A collection of protocols which describe an approach to another protocol, something we call Twitter. The amazing thing about this particular protocol is that it’s being defined daily. By you. Twitter was inspired by the concepts of immediacy, transparency, and approachability, and created by […]
Read more »I wrote the Book for @Meredith. Thanks to Case, Varese, Britt, and Jack for encouraging me. Thanks to my son Leo for inspiring me. Thanks to Adam for prompting me. Thanks to Jenna for writing about this. Thanks to Erin for reading on a weekend. Thanks to Shannon, Deborah, and Matt for picking me up. […]
Read more »I have been testing Jack and Jim‘s new invention Square since April 2009. Jack bought me breakfast, then proceeded to charge me for it, using his iPhone. I became a Square merchant in May. Since then I’ve been documenting a new 140 character space: the credit card line item. Right now, I’m one of a handful […]
Read more »When Twitter was hatched, it was called “twttr”. Jack Dorsey, coding up the very first working version of the site, sent the first recorded message at 12:50pm PDT: just setting up my twttr This message was written by @Jack’s system automatically by all users upon signup, and this practice lasted for a while. His second […]
Read more »Twitter was born about three years ago, when @Jack, @Biz, @Noah, @Crystal, @Jeremy, @Adam, @TonyStubblebine, @Ev, me (@Dom), @Rabble, @RayReadyRay, @Florian, @TimRoberts, and @Blaine worked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco. The company had just contributed a major chunk of code to Rails 1.0 and had just shipped Odeo […]
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