{"id":13774,"date":"2022-07-15T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/?p=13774"},"modified":"2022-07-15T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:03:55","slug":"who-created-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/who-created-twitter","title":{"rendered":"Who Created Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_43 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e7c4a991720\" class=\"cssicon\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e7c4a991720\"  class=\"cssiconcheckbox\">1<\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e7c4a991720\" ><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/who-created-twitter\/#Who_Created_Twitter\" title=\"Who Created Twitter?\">Who Created Twitter?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/who-created-twitter\/#Evan_Williams\" title=\"Evan Williams\">Evan Williams<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/who-created-twitter\/#Noah_Glass\" title=\"Noah Glass\">Noah Glass<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/who-created-twitter\/#Jack_Dorsey\" title=\"Jack Dorsey\">Jack Dorsey<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/who-created-twitter\/#Chris_Messina\" title=\"Chris Messina\">Chris Messina<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/who-created-twitter\/#Ashton_Kutcher\" title=\"Ashton Kutcher\">Ashton Kutcher<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_Created_Twitter\"><\/span>Who Created Twitter?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7LpqVlL.png\" style=\"max-height:382px; max-width:37% margin:0px 10px; width:auto; height:auto;\" alt=\"who created twitter\">  <\/p>\n<p>Who created Twitter? The answer depends on your personal taste, and on whether you want to credit Noah Glass, Evan Williams, or Chris Messina. These are four people who helped make the microblogging service popular, and they all have very different contributions to the world of social networking. This article will tell you more about each of them. It will also help you determine who&#8217;s right for the job, and what their qualifications are. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown of each:<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Evan_Williams\"><\/span>Evan Williams<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you are a fan of social media, you know Evan Williams. He co-founded Twitter and Medium, a social media platform that has a following of 17 million people. Twitter is a social media site that allows people to post links to articles and other content, while Medium is a publication that hosts poetry, essays, and other writing. While Twitter may have been created by a tech genius, its success is largely due to its users.<\/p>\n<p>While working on his projects, Evan Williams co-founded Blogger, an online publishing tool. In 2004, he also founded Odeo, which launched podcasts on the web. This project eventually became an acquisition by Google. Both Twitter and Blogger are now available in more than 140 languages. The social network has since grown into one of the most popular websites in the world, with more than 500 million users as of May 2015.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Noah_Glass\"><\/span>Noah Glass<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, fired Noah Glass in 2006. The move was motivated by money and power, not by the desire to build a successful social media site. Evan was already making millions while Noah made pennies. However, when the company went public, Evan was less than pleased. He decided to remove Noah from the board, despite his expertise and contributions to the company. This move was one of the most controversial of the founders&#8217; careers.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Williams was a fellow Google employee and friend of Noah, who had created Audio Blogger, a website that would allow users to make voice posts from their phones. He eventually teamed up with Ev, a Google employee who had previously sold Blogger to Google. Noah renamed the company Odeo, which means &#8220;oddo&#8221; in Greek. The team was made up of anarchist computer nerds, and they soon rented an office space. In exchange for $200000, Ev agreed to take the CEO title of Odeo.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jack_Dorsey\"><\/span>Jack Dorsey<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Before starting Twitter, Jack Dorsey developed taxi-dispatching software. After dropping out of New York State University, he established his own company, later offering taxi-dispatching software on the internet. He was fascinated by the technological challenges involved in fleet coordination. When he was fifteen, he wrote a program to coordinate cabs. The software he created remained in use by taxicab companies for decades.<\/p>\n<p>During the development of Twitter, Dorsey worked with two other people, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, who had both been in the instant messaging business. They developed a prototype of the service within two weeks. This initial version attracted a large user base at Odeo. Evan Williams, another co-founder, invested in the company. Evan Williams, who had previously co-founded Blogger and Pyra Labs, was a key figure in the company&#8217;s early success.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chris_Messina\"><\/span>Chris Messina<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The hashtag was a revolutionary way to categorize data and was invented by Chris Messina, who founded Twitter in 2007. He was frustrated with the lack of organization on Twitter and decided to use the Internet Relay Chat format to come up with a new symbol to indicate keywords. This symbol has now become synonymous with Twitter and is used to organize countless conversations. Currently, the hashtag is the most used feature on Twitter, and Messina is the creator of the most popular Twitter client.<\/p>\n<p>Messina was born in Bedford, N.H., and later attended Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked for several tech companies, including Google and Uber, and is a social technology advisor, mostly in San Francisco. He is best known for his creation of the hashtag, which has become an integral part of the Twitter experience. Messina has been quoted as saying, &#8220;The hashtag has changed the way we communicate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ashton_Kutcher\"><\/span>Ashton Kutcher<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Among the first celebrities to embrace the social network, Ashton Kutcher has amassed 14.5 million followers on Twitter. Ashton Kutcher also has a passion for social media, and he praised Twitter&#8217;s democratization when he first made it public. In fact, he rarely goes more than three days without tweeting. But this doesn&#8217;t mean Twitter is dead yet.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the original &#8216;Twitter&#8217;, Twitter does not create intimacy. The first couple of Twitter, who had less than a million followers, split up after only four months. CNN also acquired the @cnnbrk Twitter account, which had 947,000 followers, while Kutcher had 917,000. 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