The selection of this time span made perfect sense from a Hollywood A huge box-office hit, the film established Willis as a movie star and spawned three sequels. Die Hard also became Four months earlier, on March 25, the police and a tenant at 10 Rillington Place in West London made an awful discovery: the bodies of four women in an empty apartment, three in a hidden cupboard and one more Live TV.
This Day In History. History Vault. Space Exploration. World War I. Lifewire Technology Review Board Member. Jessica Kormos is a writer and editor with 15 years' experience writing articles, copy, and UX content for Tecca. Article reviewed on Nov 25, Tweet Share Email. In This Article. Early Twitter. The First Tweet. Twitter Achieves Explosive Growth. User Innovation on Twitter.
Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. Tell us why! More from Lifewire. Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for Lifewire.
At any time, you can update your settings through the "EU Privacy" link at the bottom of any page. By , the New York Times reported that the company had more than 2, employees and more than million active users.
As it is explained in Oberlo , there are million monthly active users and million daily active users on Twitter. The ratio of female to male Twitter users is roughly one to two: 34 percent female and 66 percent male. Twitter is still the most precious platform to invest in for any kind of business. If you have any trouble using this network, insert in the comments, and our experts would reply to it soon.
Dyka Smith is a content marketing professional at Inosocial, an inbound marketing and sales platform that helps companies attract visitors, convert leads, and close customers. Previously, Dyka worked as a marketing manager for a tech software startup. Ex-Googler Evan Williams had a startup called Odeo.
It was going to be a podcasting platform. Evan asked his friend, another ex-Googler named Biz Stone , to join him. When Apple launched iTunes podcasting, and made Odeo's podcasting platform irrelevant, Evan and Biz and an Odeo employee named Jack Dorsey decided to create something called Twitter instead. Odeo's investors didn't like Twitter, and Evan did them a huge favor by buying back all their stock and making them whole.
According to interviews with about a dozen early investors and employees, the story of how Twitter was actually founded begins with an entrepreneur named Noah Glass , who started Odeo in his apartment.
Along with Charles River Ventures and about a dozen other individuals, one of Glass' earliest investors in Odeo was a former Google employee named Evan Williams. Williams was more involved with Odeo than most investors are with startups in their portfolios, and eventually, Odeo moved from Noah's apartment to Williams'.
Williams, who had recently sold a company called Blogger to Google , had just bought a nice house and wanted to put his old apartment to good use. Mostly it was the four of us working out of the apartment. But then, in the fall of , "the shit hit the fan," says George Zachary, the Charles River Ventures partner who led the firm's investment in Odeo. That was when Apple first announced iTunes would include a podcasting platform built into every one of the million iPods Apple would eventually sell.
Around the same time, Odeo employees, from Glass and Williams on down, began to realize that they weren't listening to podcasts as much as they thought they would be. Williams decided Odeo's future was not in podcasting, and later that year, he told the company's employees to start coming up with ideas for a new direction Odeo could go.
The company started holding official "hackathons" where employees would spend a whole day working on projects. They broke off into groups. Odeo co-founder Noah Glass gravitated toward Jack Dorsey, whom Glass says was "one of the stars of the company. We were going out and I was dropping him off and having this conversation.
It all fit together for me. One day in February , Glass, Dorsey, and a German contract developer Florian Weber, presented Jack's idea to the rest of the company. It was a system where you could send a text to one number and it would be broadcasted out to all of your friends: Twttr. Noah Glass says it was he who came up with the name "Twttr. Eventually, the name would become Twitter. After that February presentation to the company, Evan Williams was skeptical of Twitter's potential, but he put Glass in charge of the project.
From time to time, Biz Stone helped out Glass' Twitter team. Everyone agrees that original inkling for Twitter sprang from Jack Dorsey's mind. Dorsey even has drawings of something that looks like Twitter that he made years before he joined Odeo.
And Jack was obviously central to the Twitter team. But all of the early employees and Odeo investors we talked to also agree that no one at Odeo was more passionate about Twitter in the early days than Odeo's co-founder, Noah Glass.
Noah was fanatically excited about Twitter. Evan and Biz weren't at that level. Not remotely. Zachary says Glass told him, "You know what's awesome about this thing? It makes you feel like you're right with that person. It's a whole emotional impact. You feel like you're connected with that person. At one point the entire early Twitter service was running on Glass' laptop.
I could just pick it up and take it anywhere in the world. That was a really fun time. Glass insists that he is not Twitter's sole founder or anything like it. But he feels betrayed that his role has basically been expunged from Twitter history. He says Florian Weber doesn't get enough credit, either. The reality is, it was a group effort.
0コメント