twitter- the past

Twitter: The Past

http://www.socialnomics.net/2013/01/23/the-history-of-twitter/

http://www.techinsider.io/how-twitter-was-founded-2011-4

·         Evan Williams had a start up named ‘Odeo’ that was going to be a podcasting platform originally.

·         An ex- google employee called Biz Stone came to work with Evan.

·         They soon realised that ‘Odeo’ would be irrelevant after the launch of Itunes.

·         Evan, Biz and another employee named Jack Dorsey decided to make a site called ‘Twitter’ instead.

·         Twitter’s name is thought to derive from the name of a photo sharing site called ‘Flickr’ and also gets inspiration from the chirp noises that birds make, as they have connotations to being able to send “short bursts of information”.

·         ‘Odeo’s’ investors at the time had little faith in the idea of twitter and Evan decided to buy back the stocks so that it made them whole again.

·         By March 2006, ‘Odeo’ had made its first prototype of twitter.

·         March 21 2006, Jack sent the first tweet.

·         Twitter became more than just friends sharing their day with people. Soon big organizations were sharing breaking news on twitter before anywhere else.