Q:How did you invent Twitter?
A: “It took a long time. I’ve always been fascinated with how cities work, fell in love with maps, obsessing with maps. I taught myself to program maps when I was a teenager and put dots on maps. I eventually got a rich picture of everything that was happening in a city (in this case, Manhattan). But the citizens ( (i.e. my friends) were missing from the map. The idea came out again later in 2006 when I was at Odeo. We created the first version of Twitter in 2 weeks.”
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There’s a video of the talk at dutchcowboys – http://www.dutchcowboys.nl/videochannel/events/2048 “Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, talks about the service and the web, and presents his new startup, Square, a credit card payment solution for any phone with audio jack.” (video by Malik Koljenovic – http://vimeo.com/8093606)