Social media fans
The origins of Twitter lie in the “all-day exchange of views” by board members of podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a college student at New York University, introduced the idea of a person using an SMS service to chat with a small group. [25] The original draft of the service code was twttr, an idea that Williams later became known as Noah Glass, [27] inspired by Flickr, and the five-letter length of the US short code. The decision was mainly due to the fact that the twitter.com domain was already in use and, six months after the launch of the twttr staff, they bought the domain and changed the name of the service to Twitter. The developers first took "10958" as a short code, but later changed it to "40404" to "make it easier to use and remember". Work on the project began on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey announced her first message on Twitter at 9 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST): "just set up my twttr". Dorsey explained the origin o...