Just as interesting to me is the MVP screenshot that precedes this photo <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182614595/in/photostream/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182614595/in/photos...</a>
It's interesting how two veery big services came from the idea of setting up a real-time status.<p>Early Twitter as I remember was that when you post the status your followers would get an SMS notification with the status.<p>Jack mentions that here of a real-time status and also the same for WhatsApp. Where WhatsApp inventors thought about a way to set up a real-time status.<p>But they pivoted to something different. Only that Twitter is still more close to the original idea.
If you look at old LiveJournal the short posting form felt a lot like twitter. Here's what LJ content looked like on the day of that Flickr post:<p><a href="https://brad.livejournal.com/2000/05/31/" rel="nofollow">https://brad.livejournal.com/2000/05/31/</a><p>(Edit: switched the link to match the flickr post.)
I still have the coffee cup they handed out to employees when they brought up the origin story during an all hands once. Can’t remember if it was 2010 or 2011 I got the cup. Still have it and use it. Has the old Twttr logo on it.
>I love the word.ed domains<p>Except worded domains that begin with <a href="https://2fb.me" rel="nofollow">https://2fb.me</a> that try to deliver tweets beyond its boundaries.<p>Twitter has been a bane to this service for many generations.
If we had the sketch to how toilet paper was first developed would we hold it this level of reverence?<p>What is the fascination with such trivial technologies grabbing a mindshare?