num_pages: 299
description: Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years a small group of young ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed podcasting company. Today Twitter boasts more than 200 million active users and has affected business politics media and other fields in innumerable ways. Now Nick Bilton of the New York Times takes readers behind the scenes with a narrative that shows what happened inside Twitter as it grew at exponential speeds. This is a tale of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles as the four foundersBiz Stone Evan Williams Jack Dorsey and Noah Glasswent from everyday engineers to wealthy celebrities featured on magazine covers Oprah The Daily Show and Times list of the worlds most influential people. Biltons exclusive access and exhaustive investigative reportingdrawing on hundreds of sources documents and internal e-mailshave enabled him to write an intimate portrait of fame influence and power. He also captures the zeitgeist and global influence of Twitter which has been used to help overthrow governments in the Middle East and disrupt the very fabric of the way people communicate.
language: English
title: Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
publisher: Portfolio Hardcover