- Address: 164 South Park
- San Francisco CA 94107
- Country: US
- Blog: http://twitter.com/blog
- Founded: March 2006
- Employees: 10
Overview
Founded in March of 2006, Twitter is social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called "Explore" for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called "Twitter Blocks".
The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo. Twitter's main competitors are Pownce and Jaiku.
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Products
Product URL: http://twitter.com
Twitter allows users to post text updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, Twitter’s website and third party applications. Users have their own profile page that displays their latest updates. In addition, users can become "friends" with one another, or simply be a "follower." Other than reading another person's profile page, a user can also receive others’ updates through text messages, RSS or third party applications.
Twitter itself is a free service, though users may have to pay text messaging charges to the phone carriers.
People
| Evan Williams | Co-founder |
| Jack Dorsey | CEO and Co-founder |
| Noah Glass | Co-founder |
| Jason Goldman | Product Development |
| Biz Stone | Co-founder & Director of Community |
| Marc Andreessen | Investor |
| Dick Costolo | Investor |
| Ron Conway | Investor |
| Naval Ravikant | Investor |
| Lee Mighdoll | VP of Engineering and Operations |
Funding
| Date | Round | Size | Investors |
| July 07 | Series B | $5.40M |
Charles River Ventures Union Square Ventures Marc Andreessen Dick Costolo Naval Ravikant Ron Conway |
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User Reviews
- thaumataNovember 5, 2007 at 8:07am
After being dragged to twitter by friends, I have to say that while the concept is good (nice to be able to SMS internet friends without giving out your mobile number) the performance is DISMAL. I get an error about every three page views and frequently get my tweets three hours late. When someone makes a more reliable product, twitter will probably lose people in droves. I know many already going over to pownce and jaiku for this reason alone.
- happy_meOctober 27, 2007 at 6:19am
djsn!!
- EvorglebOctober 10, 2007 at 9:05pm
Great service for updating a user's status or "mini-blogging". However I question how much inovation can be done in the area.
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with so much noise about instant messaging this business model will be expanding in the coming months. If Google adquired Jaiku it must worth it!