Daniel Marty

The Birth of Twitter

Five years ago from today, the first Tweet was sent and Twitter was launched. This was posted on Jack Dorsey’s (the creator of Twitter) blog. This is a conversation between him and Biz Stone as they tested and sent the first Tweet– they had just launched Twitter. Pretty amazing stuff.

Click past the break to see the conversation, and the birth of one of the most popular websites on the internet.

jacks:

me: okay. i’m going to delete everyone, then invite you.
Biz: okay sounds good
okay, that worked!
me: nice. now, don’t invite anyone yet.
Biz: changing your name needs to be more obvious
okay
me: it didn’t ask you to signup?
oh, dang. that’s a bug.
Biz: no. okay cool!
me: did it just go down for you?
Biz: yah
me: should be back up.
i’m going to delete you again, and have you go through the process again.
Biz: okay
me: okay. try that.
it’s cool. i can follow your number right away.
so once you update, i get something.
Biz: okay hold on
shite
got an error
gonna try again
me: what error?
Biz: application error when I pressed “done” on the name/pin page
quitting browser trying again
hmm still getting it
is it cause i already been here?
me: let me look.
oh, i see the problem. i’ll fix it.
Biz: ok
me: okay, try now. same pin
Biz: ok
nice!
so easy and smooth
me: nice!
what do you think about that sms invite message for now
Biz: thats gotta be the easiest invite sign up ever
message is good
me: wanted to start inviting the odeo people, and had to put in the user/pass
is that clear?
Biz: yah
me: cool. okay. now we can start the invites :)
Biz: awesome
how should we do it?
willy nilly?
me: yeah!
Biz: okay!