Twitter Was Born from a Hackathon

Twitter Was Born from a Hackathon
Did you know that the creators of Twitter once worked at Google? In 2005, Biz Stone and his co-worker Evan Williams left Google to start a podcasting business called Odeo. A lot of investors were interested in their business. Unfortunately, Biz and Evan weren’t passionate about it. They knew they couldn’t work on a project that didn’t interest them, so they decided to have a hackathon. For two weeks, the small group of Odeo employees worked in pair,s and tried to think of a new idea for a business. Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey came up with an idea for a microblogging service. They thought it would be fun to have an online service that let you see a short, simple status update of what your friends were doing. They built a prototype and presented it to the Odeo team. The team wasn’t that excited, but after a while they decided that it was the best idea. They began to work together on building Twitter.

1. Biz Stone is one of the creators of Twitter.
2. Odeo was the company that the Twitter creators first tried to build. They came up with Twitter instead.
3. Jack Dorsey was paired up with Biz Stone during a hackathon. He and Biz came up with the idea for Twitter.