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Evan Williams speaks with Ezra Klein, Editor-at-Large at Vox, during the 2019 Code Conference.

in that meeting was William’s co-founder Noah Glass, who is credited with coming up with the name. When users received a message from Twitter, it would be distributed from the abbreviation twttr, and the SMS code 40404. Developers of the website hoped the code would be easy for users to memorize and recognize. Dorsey received help for his new project from Biz Stone, Odeo’s creative director, and another contractor named Florian Weber. All three were very talented programmers, and they were able to build the first version of Twitter within two weeks. On March 21, 2006, Dorsey sent out his first Twitter message, known as a tweet. It said, “just setting up my twttr.” Only Odeo employees used the first version of Twitter, as it was not ready to be shared with the world.

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