Hatching Twitter

This book satiated my curiosity about the origins of Twitter. It starts with a simple tool to allow friends to know what they are doing via SMS updates and morphs into a revolutionary idea of giving voice to people, no matter their social status. It's clear that the founders (and friends) Jack, Evan, Biz, and Noah all contributed to "create" Twitter but the book shows how greed and money-talks disrupted friendships and ended up creating power struggles between the members. It is clear that once Twitter became huge, and millions of dollars were at stake, the company lost its founding values getting lost into the attention economy model. I loved the way the author chose to tell this story. He mixes journalism and narrative in a very clever style. I want to read more books written by Nick Bilton.

A remarkable history of Twitter

Assuming what Bilton wrote is substantially factually accurate, this is a remarkable story. It's also a tragedy of sorts, in which egos ruined lives, distorted perspectives, and left Twitter under the control of a CEO who, by Bilton's account, is simply the wrong person for the job.

Drama

I liked the story. But there's a lot of people who could've told it, maybe in a more exciting style, given the information. Didn't really like the obvious journalism.

Basically, the author wants to tell us Jack Dorsey is an a-hole. Considered that he is a very successful businessmen, it's easy to get the conclusion that if you want to be rich and famous, you have to be an a-hole who has to sacrifice your love and friends.

The whole book is very biased, not object at all, which is kind of funny and interesting.

I wish the author can spend more effort to analyze how to be a great a-hole.

An unpleasant, nasty story of unpleasant people behaving in an unpleasant and incompetent way, told in a biased and negative way. Reminds me why I do not miss the office life.