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Jack Dorsey Tweets The History Of Twitter

Six years ago, 13 March 2006, programmers began working on the application that would become Twitter. In 2011, Jack Dorsey tweeted the history over the course of two weeks. This is an aggregation of those tweets.

  1. March 21, 2012: Twitter is six years old!
  2. Happy 4th Birthday Twitter!
    Kim_Randall
    Mon, Mar 19 2012 13:54:09
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  3. Installment 1: Sunday 13 March 2011
  4. jack
    5 years ago today we started programming Twitter ("twttr" for short). 8 days later the first tweet was sent: http://t.co/Vi5ii5A #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  5. jack
    I've been digging through all my drawings, emails, & notes from around that time. I'll share them over the next 2 weeks right here on #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  6. jack
    We were given the go ahead to work on the idea that morning. An IM conversation with @Biz letting him know: http://t.co/iFsNQb2 #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  7. jack
    The team was small: @Noah came up with the name & managed, @florian & I programmed, @Biz designed, all under the roof of Odeo & @Ev. #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  8. jack
    The name Twitter came from @Noah Glass & the Oxford English: "a short inconsequential burst of information, chirps from birds." #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  9. jack
    However, we wanted to focus on mobile, so we dropped the vowels to get the SMS shortcode 89887 (TWTTR). Too bad Teen People owned it. #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  10. jack
    I drew out the original idea on this notepad around 2001, named stat.us. Just needed the right time & team. http://t.co/aMft0SM #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  11. jack
    A week earlier, @Biz & I worked on the design to show Odeo before programming. Here's the first twttr.com. http://t.co/s1gPjKv #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  12. jack
    A design for the logged in following page (then called "friends"): http://t.co/ODFsNK2 #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  13. jack
    A design for the public updates page (which didn't stick around long): http://t.co/FgFB9Gz #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  14. jack
    A design for twttr.com settings. Note the "extra secret mode." That became protected mode. http://t.co/1DhexqK #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  15. jack
    And the simplest sign up form ever. I wish it was still this easy. http://t.co/HZjEVmU #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  16. jack
    I build products by writing stories. An email to @Noah describing the stories we needed to program day by day: http://t.co/k516bBy #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  17. jack
    An IM with @Biz suggesting "twttr." I wasn't happy with the no vowels, but the domain was available... http://t.co/5HXm5zt #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  18. jack
    Before implementing anything, we had all the SMS commands thought out. The SMS narratives (again, stories): http://t.co/IJMbFkZ #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  19. jack
    Originally I was going to program twttr in Python, C, & Ocaml. But, I got @florian who was a core contributor to Ruby on Rails. #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  20. jack
    I'm not sure if one counts the day of original programming or the first tweet (the 21st) as Twitter's birthday. Probably the latter. #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  21. I sent Jack a reply: I'd call first day of programming "conception" and first tweet "birth". :-) Thanks for doing this!
  22. jack
    We had 14 days to finish. But our excitement drove us to work non-stop. And we moved fast. More on Twitter's history tomorrow. #5 #twttr
    jack
    Thu, Oct 27 2011 16:58:41
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  23. End of first day's tweets.

    Day Two: Monday 14 March 2011
  24. jack
    Just a day later, we had login working on our staging environment, sms.odeo.com. @Ev just bought twttr.com. http://t.co/XRGxocz #twttr
    jack
    Mon, Mar 14 2011 13:01:39
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  25. jack
    At 5:33PM 5 years ago today, we had design, login, & update. There were only 2 people on twttr, me & @florian. http://t.co/Slqj6Kx #twttr
    jack
    Mon, Mar 14 2011 13:10:32
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