Twitter.com CEO: With Open Source, It's All About the People | Linux Today

Twitter.com CEO: With Open Source, It’s All About the People

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 28, 2007

“Jack Dorsey wants to change the way people communicate on the
Internet. Are you used to updating your blog once every 24 hours?
If Dorsey has his way, you’ll soon be thinking about lots of tiny
blog posts from wherever you are, whenever you want. Dorsey, a
former software developer for a courier and dispatch service, is
the founder and CEO of Twitter.com, a social networking Web site
with a twist: in the clipped style of a taxi drivers radioing a
status report to the dispatcher, Twitter users post mini-updates
throughout the day and night to let friends (and the world) know
the minute details of what they’re doing…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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