Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
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.
But few people know that it nearly fell to pieces early on.
In this rousing history that reads like a novel, Hatching Twitter takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter’s early exponential growth, following the four…
Nick Bilton is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, where he writes about technology, business, and culture. He is also a contributor at CNBC, and was a columnist for The New York Times for almost a decade. Bilton lives in Los Angeles with his wife, son, and dog, Pixel. To learn more, visit nickbilton.com.
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