How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME
Evan Williams and Biz Stone of TwitterRobyn Twomey for TIMEENLARGE +Print Reprints Email Twitter Linkedin Buzz up!(44)Facebook MORE...Add to my:del.icio.us Technorati reddit Google Bookmarks Mixx StumbleUpon Blog this on:TypePad LiveJournal Blogger MySpace The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal." RelatedAudioHost Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's Just Fox on stocks vs. bonds and Barbara Kiviat about the housing market's new movementDownload | SubscribeSpecialsThe World of TwitterSpecialsTop 10 Celebrity Twitter FeedsSpecials10 Ways Twitter Will Change American BusinessStoriesThe TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton KutcherMore RelatedThe TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton KutcherThe TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton KutcherThe Future of TwitterI, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams was launching a communications platform that limited you to a
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