On May 31st, 2000, I signed up with a new service called LiveJournal. I was user 4,136 which entitled me a permanent account and street cred in some alternate geeky universe which I have not yet visited. I was living in the Sunshine Biscuit Factory in Oakland California and starting a company to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the web.
One night in July of that year I had an idea to make a more "live" LiveJournal. Real-time, up-to-date, from the road. Akin to updating your AIM status from wherever you are, and sharing it. For the next 5 years, I thought about this concept and tried to silently introduce it into my various projects. It slipped into my dispatch work. It slipped into my networks of medical devices. It slipped into an idea for a frictionless service market. It was everywhere I looked: a wonderful abstraction which was easy to implement and understand.
The 6th year; the idea has finally solidified (thanks to the massively creative environment my employer Odeo provides) and taken a novel form. We're calling it twttr (though this original rendering calls it stat.us; I love the word.ed domains, e.g. gu.st/). It's evolved a lot in the past few months. From an excited discussion and persuasion on the South Park playground to a recently approved application for a SMS shortcode. I'm happy this idea has taken root; I hope it thrives.
Some things are worth the wait.
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Shahzad 23 28 months ago | reply
Awesome !
Thanks for sharing us
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sclcty 28 months ago | reply
#beforetwitter
cybrgps 28 months ago | reply
That's so awesome!
RAWAALUNA 28 months ago | reply
congratulations,, keep up the good work,,and thanks for your effort
peace
sbove 28 months ago | reply
Love seeing these incept moments...simple great ideas that launch worlds. I'm at 15.900 tweets and counting ;-) Not to mention the hundreds of thousands I must have read from the awesome swarm I follow...which is the greatest "news organization" in the world bar none.
jcgr 28 months ago | reply
Thanks for sharing this and other details of your creative process. Very interesting.
Limerick6 27 months ago | reply
Your product will always be remembered. You've saved lives, you're idea made changes in the world (for the better) and it has virtually connected people all over the world. Thank you!
igcenterprises 27 months ago | reply
I've had ideas on pieces of paper for years too, I should probably get on with developing them... Fair play for seeing your vision through to reality. Any advice?
leyla.a 24 months ago | reply
love it.
ahmed faraz1 24 months ago | reply
An interesting discussion is worth comment. I think that you should write more on this topic, it might not be a taboo subject but generally people are not enough to speak on such topics. To the next. Cheers
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waqas_tasneem 23 months ago | reply
creative inspiration
syedqurat 22 months ago | reply
amazing idea
aufi87_ra 15 months ago | reply
good job Jack, and now Twitter it's popular social media in the world :)
JuanGómez 14 months ago | reply
this is real inspiration.
boo oinky 12 months ago | reply
can be a quiz question... :)
sandyrowley 11 months ago | reply
Thank you for sharing! This is Wonderful!
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Luis bt 5 months ago | reply
Esta muy bien eso de por lo menos compartir los primeros pasos y las primeras experiencias en el proceso de creación de una empresa.Asi otras personas se motivan tambien a sacar a relucir su imaginacion