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Tech CEO Parade Slated for Web 2.0 Summit...Tuesday until Thursday. High-wattage speakers will include Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, Twitter CEO Evan Williams, Web luminary Tim Berners-Lee, Intel CEO Paul Otellin, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Adobe CEO Shantanu... In this article: Web 2.0, SAP, John Battelle, O'Reilly Media, PayPal, Tim O'Reilly, Twitter, and Microsoft |
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Mashable! | October 23, 2009
Father of the Web Joins Twitter
Father of the Web Joins Twitter Here's my contribution for this Friday's #followfriday: Tim Berners-Lee. Yes, the guy who pretty much invented the World Wide Web back in 1989 (has it been that long already?) has finally joined the...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, Webby Award, and Al Gore
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PC World: Latest Technology News | October 24, 2009
The Web's Creator Tweets
...to openness on the Web. Side note: Twitter's recent introduction of a spam reporting feature is a boon, but there's something jarring about the "report timberners_lee for spam" link at the right of his page. It's a little as if George...
In this article: Tim Berners Lee, Johannes Gutenberg, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium, Identi.ca, TechCrunch, and Alexander Graham Bell
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CNET News.com | October 23, 2009
Tech advice from Tim Berners-Lee
...but not on a global scale. If you want it everywhere, give it away. The Twitter founders must have heard this message before they built their product. When asked why Berners-Lee never thought about charging for the Web, the answer...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Foundation, Rafe Needleman, Web 2.0, Microsoft, E mail, Byte Magazine, Red Herring, and CNET
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Xconomy | October 23, 2009
Tim Berners-Lee Joins Twitter
...making use of the new medium? As of this writing, he's tweeted only twice-once to complain that Twitter's user interface is confusing, the second time to say that he was "following the teens. " We gather that this wasn't a reference...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Consortium, All rights reserved, Web 2.0, WordPress, TechCrunch, Piper Jaffray, and Ashton Kutcher
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TechCrunch | October 23, 2009
Full Circle In Sight As Inventor Of The World Wide Web Joins Twitter
...a conversation with Tim O'Reilly on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit. The man uses Tweetie and thinks either the app or the Twitter website has a confusing user interface. Since Berners-Lee is also the Director of Web standards organization...
In this article: World Wide Web Consortium, Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, MIT, and Facebook
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Description from Wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
The 140-character limit on message length was initially set for compatibility with SMS messaging, and has brought to the web the kind of shorthand notation and slang commonly used in SMS messages. The 140 character limit has also spurred the usage of URL shortening services such as tinyurl, bit.ly and tr.im, and content hosting services, such as Twitpic and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter.
- Name:
- Twitter, Inc
- Type:
- Private
- Location City:
- San Francisco, California
- Location Country:
- USA
- Founded:
- 2006
- Industry:
- mobile social network service, micro-blogging
- Key People:
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- Jack Dorsey, Chairman
- Evan Williams, CEO
- Biz Stone, Creative Director
- Revenue:
- $400,000 Q3 (2009) (projected)
- No. of Employees:
- 74
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