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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!

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]