Jack Dorsey: Twitter was built in two weeks

Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in September.

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Rome may not have been built in a day, but Twitter was built in just two weeks.

During an onstage interview at a Twitter off-site meeting today, co-founder Jack Dorsey (who is also the founder of the mobile payments company, Square) recalled how long it took him to build the first version of the microblogging service: two weeks.

.@jack: The first version of @twitter was built in two weeks and was SMS only #MakingHistory twitter.com/gyalif/status/...

— Guy Yalif (@gyalif) November 15, 2012

As has become part of modern Internet legend, Dorsey built Twitter as a side project while he was an employee of Evan Williams' and Biz Stone's (now defunct) podcasting company Odeo. Together, the three men went on to turn Twitter into a stand-alone business. Today, more than half a billion people have created Twitter accounts, and last month, current CEO Dick Costolo said that the service is now processing <... [Read more]