twitter company profile

Twitter

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks.

The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo.

In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage.

Milestones

• 6/23/08 — Hires Rudy Winnacker and John Adams, two new Operation Engineers ⁶
• 6/9/08 — Survives iPhone 3G Stevenote ⁷
• 6/9/08 — Twitter partners with Summize to cover Apple news. ⁸
• 5/28/08 — Launches a status blog to communicate to users better about issues with the service. ⁹
• 5/7/08 — Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers ¹⁰
• 4/24/08 — VP Lee Mighdoll Leaves Twitter ¹¹
• 4/23/08 — Chief Architect Blaine Cook Leaves Twitter ¹²
• 4/22/08 — Twitter Japan Launches ¹³
• 4/16/08 — Twitter helps bust American man out of Egyptian jail ¹⁴
• 7/15/06 — Twitter Launches ¹⁵
• 3/21/06 — First Twitter ¹⁶

General Information

Website	twitter.com
Blog	twitter.com/blog
Twitter	@twitter
Category	Consumer Web
Email	pr@twitter.com
Employees	29
Founded	3/06
Description	Social networking and microblogging

Offices

San Francisco, USA

539 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA, 94107
USA

People

Jason Goldman

Product Development

Biz Stone

Co-founder & Creative Director

John Kalucki

Distributed Systems Architect

Steve Jensen

Engineer

Jay Edwards

Operations Manager

John Adams

Senior Operations Engineer

Jeremy LaTrasse

Operations Manager

Rudy Winnacker

Operations Engineer

Britt Selvitelle

Lead of User Experience Team

Alex Payne

Engineer

Bijan Sabet

Board Member

Andrew Lorek

Engineer

Greg Pass

Director of Engineering and Ops

Jack Dorsey

Co-Founder, Chairman

Chris Sacca

Advisor/Investor

Rael Dornfest

Engineer, User Experience Group

Evan Williams

Co-Founder, CEO

Alexander Macgillivray

General Counsel

Abdur Chowdhury

Chief Scientist

Peter Fenton

board of directors

Doug Cook

Director of Search

Acquisitions

Values of n, 11/08 1
Summize, 7/08 2

Funding

Total	$55M
Series A, 7/07 3 Charles River Ventures Union Square Ventures Marc Andreessen Dick Costolo Naval Ravikant Ron Conway Chris Sacca	$5M
Series B, 5/08 4 Union Square Ventures Bezos Expeditions Spark Capital Digital Garage Kevin Rose Tim Ferriss	$15M
Series C, 2/09 5 Benchmark Capital Institutional Venture Partners Spark Capital Union Square Ventures Charles River Ventures Digital Garage	$35M

Competitors

Digg, Pownce, ZYB, Jaiku, Zannel, mocospace, Chatterous, trymehere, Twitturly, TwitterFone, LetsProve, Plurk, Adocu.com, InGameNow, Posterous, Next2Friends, Hictu, kwippy.com, spotengine, Present.ly, Me2day, Xumii, Collecta

Screenshots

Above: Twitter Home Page July 2009
Uploaded: 7/25/09

Above: Twitter Homepage as of July 28, 2009
Uploaded: 7/29/09

Above: Twitter search results page as of July 28, 2009
Uploaded: 7/29/09

courtesy: crunchbase