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A brief history of Twitter

#5 | 5:24 |

Status Update


Wednesday July 28, 2010
Twitter is an excellent example of organic crowd sourcing; as Jay Goldman explains in this episode, many of the Twitter functions we know and love were conceived by the Twitter community. Things like @ mentions, re-tweets and so on were not part of the original Twitter offering and were instead added in as developers watched the way the community was using the microblogging platform.

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Show Notes

- Twitter started as a simple 140 character status update service.

- Retweeting and @ mentions were not part of the original offering.

- The official Twitter retweeting function removes the need to add the characters RT and @ the original poster's handle.
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