On May 26th, I’ll be speaking at 140 | The Twitter Conference, alongside two of my heroes: @bs and @atebits: What Makes a Great Twitter App? Panelists: Loren Brichter, Britt Selvitelle, Dom Sagolla At the core of Twitter’s popularity is it’s utter simplicity. Building on top of that functionality while retaining the ease of use […]
Read more »[Note: I actually wrote this 2 years ago, but here it is reprinted almost word for word.] Getting overwhelmed with junk on Facebook? Annoyed by random spam targeting you? Tried Twitter for a while and now you think it’s about to Jump the Shark already? Ease back on the throttle there, Fonzie. Twitter is no […]
Read more »I visited Portland this weekend, and had the pleasure of being interviewed on the infamous Strange Love Live podcast during BarCamp. Queue up to 53:30 to hear some History of Twitter and Odeo: Thanks to Toonlet for inviting me on, and to Small Society for sponsoring my trip!
Read more »Originally, Adam and I decided to combine our writing efforts, and spent over six months refining our ideas together and preparing a proposal for publication. During this process we realized that we really enjoyed working together, yet our ideas and literary voices were quite distinct. After weeks of discussion, we’ve agreed to produce our own […]
Read more »Episode #0016: Interview with Dom Sagolla: The Guy Who Helped Create Twitter Much more detail on the History of Twitter, and a few predictions thrown in there for good measure. “We’re all learning still how this thing is unfolding, and our role in it.” Thanks to Bo Bennet for reaching out via Twitter for this, […]
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 »The response to “How Twitter Was Born” has been inspiring and overwhelming. Frankly the attention (while encouraging) has taken time away from finishing the book. One of the inquiries came from Erin Malone over at William Morris Agency in New York. She read our recent profile in the New York Times, and reached out to […]
Read more »I was lucky enough to be available for this Nightline piece on Twitter. I spoke for about half an hour with the irascible John Donvan, which got boiled down to about 30 seconds about our book (starting around 5:22 in the above clip): [Dom skateboarding] John Donvan: He’s writing a book about his Twitter experiences, […]
Read more »They’re no Strunk and White, but Dom Sagolla and Adam Jackson are aiming to do for Twitter what “The Elements of Style†did for good writing on paper: outline elementary rules of usage, composition and grammar. Thus begins an article on our book in the Bits & Blogs section of the New York Times. From […]
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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