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How Twitter Was Born
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Update: An expanded form of this History is now available for Pre-order on Amazon as the Introduction to “140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form”.
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Make the most of your messages on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites.The advent of Twitter and other social networking sites, as well as the popularity of text messaging, have made short-form communication an everyday reality. But expressing yourself clearly in short bursts-particularly in the 140-character limit of Twitter-takes special writing skill.
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I remember that @Jack’s first use case was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.” His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about what you’re doing, you just type something and send it. Typing
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The interaction model and the visual metaphor for the service were constantly in flux. The meaning of being someone’s “Friend” versus “Following” someone changed regularly.
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Lauren McMullenhow twitter was born
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“Rebooting” or reinventing the company started with a daylong brainstorming session where we broke up into teams to talk about our best ideas.
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His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about what you’re doing, you just type something and send it.
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Back then, we had no character limit on our system. Messages longer than 160 characters (the common SMS carrier limit) were split into multiple texts and delivered (somewhat) sequentially. There were other bugs, and a mounting SMS bill. The team decided to place a limit on the number of characters that would go out via SMS for each post. They settled on 140, in order to leave room for the username and the colon in front of the message.
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Peggy GeorgeTwitter was born about three years ago. The first version of @Jack’s idea was entirely web-based. It was created on March 31st, 2006. Fascinating history of Twitter!
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jamie_daniel2Blog entry that talks about how Twitter was born - also note the new book about communicating in small spaces.
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Rebooting” or reinventing the company started with a daylong brainstorming session where we broke up into teams to talk about our best ideas.
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Later, each group presented their ideas, and a few of them were selected for prototyping.
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hubert guillaudDom Sagolla raconte l'histoire de la naissance de Twitter.
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Kristina Hoeppnera http://waxy.org/links
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Andrew DeVigal"I remember that @Jack’s first use case was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.” His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about w
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Phil Baumann"One could change the world with one hundred and forty characters." - @Jack
If you're at all into Twitter, read this post. If not, definitely read this post. -
Mohamed ElGoharyTwitter 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
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Allison MillerHow Twitter was born
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Tony VincentBlog post at 140Characters.com
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Michel Bauwensthe history of how it started
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Mathieu AyelHistory of the beginnings of Twitter, for the kids... :)
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Ouriel OHAYONinteresting story about how twitter was born
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Kevin LimI remember that @Jack’s first use case was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.” His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about wh
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