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Twttr sketch (2006)
- travbrack 7y agoThe intended purpose was so innocent and naive.
- radkapital 7y agowho would have thought it would turn into POTUS chief medium of communication then
- sjwright 7y agoIn their defence, it's unlikely that the situation would have been much different without Twitter. There are plenty of other ways for narcissists to micro-publish on the Internet.
- Cyberdog 7y agoYep. Hell, I'm narcissistically micro-publishing right now!
- hprotagonist 7y agoi read this in a Utah Phillips voice: around 2:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c1vSIpHA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c1vSIpHA0
- sjwright 7y agoYou might be being sarcastic, but you’re not wrong. If the POTUS commented on hacker news, they’d hit the media just as surely as any tweet.
- slim 7y agoI'd argue twitter made POTUS not the other way around
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- sneak 7y agoi’d still love a one liner list of all of my friends’ statuses.
- madaxe_again 7y agoIt was another age, back when vowels were unevenly redistributed between startups and the only typefaces were VAG rundschrift and frutiger.
- egfx 7y ago>I love the word.ed domains Except worded domains that begin with https://2fb.me https://2fb.me that try to deliver tweets beyond its boundaries. Twitter has been a bane to this service for many generations.
- exogeny 7y agoNoah Glass got hosed.
- tonystubblebine 7y agoI like Noah, but I don't think this is really true. Twitter was spun out of Odeo and that spin out was based on Ev's money and Jack's idea. In the spin out, Ev & Jack were basically recruiting out of the Odeo team. Some of us didn't want to go along. I just up and quit, I was so frustrated there. But Noah did want to continue and wasn't taken along. This all went down when Twitter was in a very, very weak position, i.e. didn't really have any value other than the fact that Ev & Jack wanted to work on it. It probably had 200 users or even less. This is a classic case of the idea is worthless and the execution is everything. Ev & Jack were the ones carrying the ability to execute this. So, Noah getting hosed really comes down to he wanted a job and didn't get it. I know that hurts, but it doesn't deserve to be the scandal that Nick Bilton made it out to be. For the scandal to work, people try to latch on to Twitter being prototyped inside the Odeo corporate entity which would make Noah a founder. That entity was dead though. Audio blogging and podcasting directories didn't work in 2005. That's what Noah really co-founded. And so in the break up of the company, Ev bought all the assets. There was no other buyer, no other source of funding, or even a desire to keep any of the products alive. Noah did end up with stock in the new Twitter and that makes it a pretty good outcome for him.
- jonchurch_ 7y agoJust as interesting to me is the MVP screenshot that precedes this photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182614595/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182614595/in/photos...
- anarchogeek 7y agoOh shit, that's my old phone number... before i switched my account to have @rabble. ;-D
- radkapital 7y agoWoah, was just reading the chapter where it described you in the Hatching Twitter book. Didn't know you hung out here too.
- kristopolous 7y agoThis is how MVPs are done, and should be done, in 2020, still, every time.
- tonystubblebine 7y agoWhat was interesting about that MVP is that it was fun to use, even with just the 15 or so people in the office. And it was still fun to use when it was opened up to fifty close friends and family a few weeks later. Not all social software works with so few people while also scaling to work with so many people.
- rukshn 7y agoIt's interesting how two veery big services came from the idea of setting up a real-time status. Early Twitter as I remember was that when you post the status your followers would get an SMS notification with the status. Jack mentions that here of a real-time status and also the same for WhatsApp. Where WhatsApp inventors thought about a way to set up a real-time status. But they pivoted to something different. Only that Twitter is still more close to the original idea.
- noitsnot 7y agoThat's interesting because I look at the date of 2006 and the drawing and say he was about a year or so behind The Facebook's status update.
- pram 7y agoand they’re all years behind AIM profile updates with the hottest linkin park lyrics
- pests 7y agoI think? There was a time fb forced a "pests is... " format for updates and I very distinctly remember them removing it to better match some other service of the time. I thought Twitter but maybe Myspace, it's been so long.
- evmar 7y agoIf you look at old LiveJournal the short posting form felt a lot like twitter. Here's what LJ content looked like on the day of that Flickr post: https://brad.livejournal.com/2000/05/31/ https://brad.livejournal.com/2000/05/31/ (Edit: switched the link to match the flickr post.)
- heyarviind 7y agoWhy there are so many girls in comments on twttr
- missedthecue 7y agoTheyre bots
- mindfulplay 7y agoIf we had the sketch to how toilet paper was first developed would we hold it this level of reverence? What is the fascination with such trivial technologies grabbing a mindshare?
- HenryBemis 7y agoI have a dossier of drawings/sketches on ideas for apps/websites. An idea comes to mind, I start writing and drawing. I keep all of them. Every now and then I go through them and add a couple more pages of drawings, notes, something I read, some new technology that will solve one or another problem, something that can be combined with something else. Seeing Jack's drawing and reading the description on how Twitter took 5-6 years from "idea" to first implementation shows that this system/method works (at least it worked for him). I do not claim I will design the next twitter-size-business, but hey, it is a mental exercise. I believe that many in this forum have the imagination, methodology, discipline to build on an idea, and we see plenty of "Show HN" to prove this right. If the invention of toilet paper has an equally exciting story.. (I read about it a few days ago)(not exciting imho)(great thing for humanity though!)
- icebraining 7y ago> If we had the sketch to how toilet paper was first developed would we hold it this level of reverence? Yes, of course. In fact, it'd probably be a museum piece. > What is the fascination with such trivial technologies grabbing a mindshare? The same as with your fascination with this fascination; ie., we like to try to understand what makes people do what they do. There's an inner sociologist in most of us.
- runawaybottle 7y agoBecause it’s inspiring. A lot of our ideas look as simple as that, and it’s good from time to time to remember that it can be done.
- FriendlyNormie 7y agoI find it infuriating. It drives home how insurmountable someone else’s first mover advantage and subsequent network effects can be. I say this as someone who had great success in my niche, I’m often angry about my own success and sympathize with my competitors who failed to catch up for no reason other than that they weren’t the first to do what I did. Today no one can turn their own micropublishing idea into a Twitter competitor, because by the time it achieves even 0.1% of Twitter’s success, Twitter will just clone its features to kill its momentum.
- niksmac 7y agoLook at all his lady fans, lol.
- someonehere 7y agoI still have the coffee cup they handed out to employees when they brought up the origin story during an all hands once. Can’t remember if it was 2010 or 2011 I got the cup. Still have it and use it. Has the old Twttr logo on it.
- WorldPeas 7y agoWhat's the deal with the bots?