Download Ebook: hatching twitter in PDF Format. Also available for mobile reader. Hatching Twitter PDF Free Download, Reviews, Read Online, ISBN:, By Nick Bilton. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account. Hatching Twitter takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter's early exponential growth. A hundred and forty characters doesn’t sound like much, but as Twitter has shown over the course of its short, intense life, they’re enough to aid a revolution, ruin a reputation or direct help after a disaster. Critics tend to focus on the irresponsibility or narcissism of the form, or to say it breeds snark or false praise, or that it enables people to feel politically involved when they’re just ranting from their couches. Sure, Twitter can facilitate the spread of misinformation. It sometimes operates (as a friend of mine once put it) as a live feed from the id. Some people use it solely to tear things down, and others to ingratiate themselves around the clock. And of course political one-liners are no substitute for being on the barricades, no matter how much @pourmecoffee makes me laugh. But ways of tweeting are so diverse that these criticisms serve as a kind of Rorschach test, revealing more about the critic and what attracts his or her attention on Twitter than they do about the form itself. Twitter’s utility and appeal lies not just in its brevity but in its randomness and ability to surprise. Within its confines, the uses to which it can be put are virtually unlimited. Even now, on the eve of its anticipated I.P.O., its true function refuses to be pinned down, and “Hatching Twitter,” a fast-paced and perceptive new book by Nick Bilton, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times, establishes that uncertainty and dissension about its true purpose has characterized Twitter from its inception. Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and the current chairman of Twitter, regarded it “as a status updater, a way to say where he was and what he was doing. A place to display yourself, your ego.” Another founder, Evan Williams, known as Ev, the co-creator of Blogger, saw it as a way to learn “where other people were and what other people were doing.” “Almost a year into the service,” Bilton writes, “there was no consistent answer to the question” of whether Twitter was even a social network. Credit Ben Wiseman None came from money. Ev Williams was a shy Nebraska farm boy whose parents never really understood their socially awkward, computer-obsessed son. Noah Glass grew up first on a commune and then with his grandparents. When a horse kicked Noah’s brother in the knee, a relative, “a tough mountain man who took on the role of father figure,” beat the horse to death with a pipe. “That’s how you stand up for yourself,” the man told him. Jack Dorsey, a computer programmer and anarchist, was from blue-collar St. Louis and had overcome a severe speech impediment that “left an indelible dent in his communication skills.” Christopher Stone, who goes by Biz, was raised on food stamps. His mother inherited her parents’ expensive house in Wellesley, Mass., and her strategy for raising her children was to sell and downgrade to a smaller place in the area every four years so her children could “take advantage of the county’s fancy schools,” and she “could use the money from the house sale to pay the bills.”. Having known hardship, none of the four founders were afraid of risk. To join the ill-fated Odeo, Stone walked away from a job at Google, leaving more than $2 million in unvested stock options on the table. Twitter began with a conversation. Dorsey and Glass sat talking in a car one night in 2006 when Odeo was on the verge of collapse. Dorsey mentioned his “status concept,” which was inspired by AOL’s Instant Messenger “away messages” and LiveJournal status updates that people were using to mention where they were and what they were doing. Glass warmed to the idea, seeing it as a “technology that would erase a feeling that an entire generation felt while staring into their computer screens”: loneliness. He wondered if the service should be based on “text messaging instead of e-mail.”. The next day, they told Stone and Williams. Stone excitedly compared it to something he’d repeatedly proposed at Google: “Phone-ternet,” “an Internet, but for your phone.” Williams, too, was enthusiastic but reluctant to involve Glass, with whom he’d begun fighting. But it was Glass who would come up with Twitter’s name. The project was a collaboration: “Jack’s concept of people sharing their status updates; Ev’s and Biz’s suggestion to make sure updates flowed into a stream, similar to Blogger; Noah adding time stamps, coming up with the name, and verbalizing how to humanize status by ‘connecting’ people.” “Was it about ego, or was it about others?” Bilton asks. “It was about both.... A simple status updater in 140-character posts was too ephemeral and egotistical to be sustainable. A news updater in 140-character spurts was just a glorified newswire.... The two together were what made Twitter different.” Although Bilton’s metaphors are occasionally a little ham-handed — were Glass and the Odeo programmers really “a modern-day Beatles”? — he contextualizes the founders’ disagreements about the fundamental nature of Twitter with a light, easy touch and unpretentious insight. Ultimately Dorsey and Williams created “the perfect equilibrium of two different ways of looking at the world: the need to talk about yourself, compared with the need to let people talk about what was happening around them. One could never have existed without the other. That balance, or battle, created Twitter. A tool that could be used by corporate titans and teens, by celebrities and nobodies, by government officials and revolutionaries.” As the company became successful, secrecy and power plays inevitably ensued. Bilton infuses genuine drama into the alliances and ousters and betrayals that saw Glass fired and Dorsey made C.E.O., and then Dorsey forced out, with Williams at the helm, and finally Williams himself unceremoniously demoted on Dorsey’s triumphant return. He shows how the money guys swooped in, cleaned house and ended up taking over. Though a sympathetic figure in the book’s early pages, Dorsey emerges in “Hatching Twitter” as the most bizarre and unlikable of the founders, the most chillingly ambitious. In Bilton’s telling, he intentionally transformed himself into a facsimile of Steve Jobs, adopting a daily uniform, wearing the same round glasses for a time, copying weekly schedules and even emulating his idol’s fondness for the Beatles. Bad uses of Twitter, as Margaret Atwood says, have been the fault of the user, not the technology. Comparing tweets with the telegram and African tribal drums, she argues in a 2010 Big Think interview that the form is “not different in nature from what we have always done, which is communicate with one another, send messages to one another and perform our lives.” Williams and Stone always conceived of Twitter as “a mouthpiece for everyday people,” and that’s what it’s been. Yet the uncertainty surrounding its purposes starts to seem more alarming as ownership, control and privacy become increasingly murky. The danger of the technology is not that it will make us more facile or less intelligent but that we can’t predict who, ultimately, will be running it — or to what ends. Author by: Nick Bilton Language: en Publisher by: Penguin Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 48 Total Download: 740 File Size: 49,7 Mb Description: The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political oppression in the Middle East to a marketing must-have to the world’s living room during live TV events to President Trump’s preferred method of communication. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over the world. 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