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.