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Have you watched the video demonstration of Google Wave yet? What we have here is shrinkage: shorter times to update, shorter updates themselves, by word in translation, or by character in live typing. Any time we see an acceleration of realtime transmission like this, we witness a revolution. With the telegram, then email, texting, instant […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]