3 posts and columns on micromessaging

CNN: We Don’t Need YouTube and Twitter to Tell Us What’s Going on in Iran–We’ve Got iReport

in Media on June 25, 2009 at 11:06 am PT

The “Iran is Twitter’s defining moment” meme is losing momentum to the “Iran is YouTube’s defining moment” meme. But CNN has a different spin. Time Warner’s cable news channel wants us to know that it isn’t dependent on either the micromessaging service or Google’s video site to report on what’s happening in Iran–it has iReport.
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D7 Video: Twitter’s Biz Stone and Evan Williams

in D7 on May 26, 2009 at 9:18 pm PT

Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams kicked off the seventh edition of D: All Things Digital by sitting down with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. The duo talked about the rocket growth of their buzzy micromessaging service, their eventual, and still vague, plans to make money; and their lack of interest in selling the start-up. Here’s a video-highlights reel:

Twitter Guys: We’ll Still Be Running This Company in Five Years

in D7 on May 26, 2009 at 6:49 pm PT

Meet the Internet’s It Boys: Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. A year ago, their “micromessaging” platform was unknown outside of a small circle of digerati. Now the service has broken through to the mainstream, or at least to the mainstream media (thanks, Oprah!). But while Twitter has no problem generating attention, it’s still unclear how the company will actually generate revenue. Or maybe it doesn’t need to do that: Last year, Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million in cash and stock, and the service could presumably garner a much higher price today. Or at least that’s what its investors may be hoping for.
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