Insider Look at How Twitter Was Born

[tonystubblebine]

http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born/

[tonystubblebine]

This is a good example of how your success is never what you started out to build. Twitter came from a team that thought they were building a podcast directory called Odeo. The article is from Odeo's QA Lead during the creation and launch of Twitter (or Twttr as it was then).

[rscott]

That's a pretty fun backstory, actually.