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 »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 […]
Read more »I set out to write this Twitter book with Dom and we started writing some things down. I took a different approach and began writing entire chapters in a few hours so we have some raw text to work with. Joking around with Dom over coffee and I brought up that after 34,500 twitter posts […]
Read more »Prelude. oh this is going to be addictive @Dom, March 21, 2006 Twitter is born, and Dom posts the first substantive tweet in response to a message from Twitter’s inventor: @Jack. Mastering the short form becomes a daily study for Dom. Four months later, we launch “twttr”. It takes a year to master Twitter, and […]
Read more »Welcome to 140 Characters, the hub of our combined efforts to write, edit, publish and distribute a book about Twitter. Updates on our work, excerpts from the book and exclusive short form content will be published here by Dom & Adam. We’re not alone though. When we say, “our combined efforts” we’re talking about the […]
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