And then Twitter was born, the 140-character social network
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 6:36 am
Old Twitter interface, the first in its history
The social network was born in 2006 as an internal service of Odeo and it is here where the history of Twitter really begins. The project had several names (Twiiit, Twich, Stat.us), although Noah Glass finally chose 'Twttr', which imitated the trill of a bird . The name is due to the fact that at that time there was a general trend among startups - which persists today - to drop the vowels in their names (Flickr, Tumblr, Scribd...). The first tweet in the history of the platform was written by Jack Dorsey on March 21 of that same year and said "Just setting up my twttr".
The first tweet on the platform was posted by Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006. A major event in Twitter history
It must be said that the 140-character limit on tweets that bosnia and herzegovina number data has so characterised Twitter until very recently was never for creative reasons . Rather, they had to put it in because they had no other choice. Being an SMS-based platform, 140 spaces was the standard limit that mobile operators established in the SMS protocol .
Twitter History: Noah Glass's 'Bad Luck'
In October 2006, it is not clear whether because they knew (secretly) of the platform's potential or because they did not want to upset investors with possible future failures, they bought Twitter shares and created Obvious Corporation .
With this change, Jack Dorsey went from being a designer to taking on the role of CEO, Biz Stone the creative director and Evan Williams the president. Noah Glass was not so lucky because Williams was quick to fire him . It is not entirely clear why, although it is said that the personalities of Williams and Glass were very different and clashed too much. In any case, Williams remained at the head of the company while Glass' name, unfortunately for him, was (intentionally) erased from Twitter's history .
The social network was born in 2006 as an internal service of Odeo and it is here where the history of Twitter really begins. The project had several names (Twiiit, Twich, Stat.us), although Noah Glass finally chose 'Twttr', which imitated the trill of a bird . The name is due to the fact that at that time there was a general trend among startups - which persists today - to drop the vowels in their names (Flickr, Tumblr, Scribd...). The first tweet in the history of the platform was written by Jack Dorsey on March 21 of that same year and said "Just setting up my twttr".
The first tweet on the platform was posted by Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006. A major event in Twitter history
It must be said that the 140-character limit on tweets that bosnia and herzegovina number data has so characterised Twitter until very recently was never for creative reasons . Rather, they had to put it in because they had no other choice. Being an SMS-based platform, 140 spaces was the standard limit that mobile operators established in the SMS protocol .
Twitter History: Noah Glass's 'Bad Luck'
In October 2006, it is not clear whether because they knew (secretly) of the platform's potential or because they did not want to upset investors with possible future failures, they bought Twitter shares and created Obvious Corporation .
With this change, Jack Dorsey went from being a designer to taking on the role of CEO, Biz Stone the creative director and Evan Williams the president. Noah Glass was not so lucky because Williams was quick to fire him . It is not entirely clear why, although it is said that the personalities of Williams and Glass were very different and clashed too much. In any case, Williams remained at the head of the company while Glass' name, unfortunately for him, was (intentionally) erased from Twitter's history .