On July 15, 2006, the San Francisco-based podcasting company
Odeo officially released Twttr—later changed to Twitter—its short messaging service (SMS) for groups, to the public.
Born as a side project apart from Odeo’s main podcasting platform,
the free application allowed users to share short status updates
with groups of friends by sending one text message to a single
number (“40404”).
Over the next few years, as Twttr became Twitter, the simple “microblogging” service would explode in popularity, becoming
one of the world’s leading social networking platforms.
Internet entrepreneur/Twitter co-founder
Evan Clark Williams (53).
