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Co-Founder Ev Williams Explains Twitter at TED

What is Twitter?  Hear what co-founder Ev Williams has to say about it at TED, one of the most interesting conferences in the world.

ted_logoEv Williams, co-founder of Twitter, explains how Twitter came to be and how it continues to surprise him as it evolves.  Since it’s beginnings in the latter 1990’s The TED conference puts the most interesting people in the fields of technology, education, and design on stage before some of the smartest and most influential audiences.

TED - Evan Williams on Twitter

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Twitter's rapid growth in 2007 resulted in outages from traffic overloads.The Wall Street Journal wrote that social-networking services such as Twitter "elicit mixed feelings in the technology-savvy people who have been their early adopters. Fans say they are a good way to keep in touch with busy friends cheap hosting. But some users are starting to feel "too" connected, as they grapple with check-in messages at odd hours, higher cellphone bills and the need to tell acquaintances to stop announcing what they're having for dinner."Using Twitter for literate communication is about as likely as firing up a CB radio and hearing some guy recite ‘The Iliad’ ", said tech writer Bruce Sterling.On the other hand Steve Dotto opines that part of Twitter's appeal is the challenge of domain registration trying to publish such messages in tight constraints."The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful," says Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School.
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