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November 6, 2013 06:57 am GMT
The distillation of one human life into a few hundred pages is a task herculean enough to trip up even seasoned biographers. Expanding that to include four co-founders and a company with as explosive a history as Twitters is begging for disaster. A new book called Hatching Twitter: A True Story Of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal, from New York Times reporter Nick Bilton attempts to do just that. Its around 300 pages and packs in the nearly seven-year history of Twitter as a company and a bit more. The introduction rips along, introducing us to the four people most responsible for Twitter: Noah Glass, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey. A quick portrait of each of them is painted, albeit in fairly broad strokes. All talented, all intelligent, all searching for human connections and a way to enhance those connections using the Internet. Bilton is also careful to note in his introduction that when he attributes emotional states or thoughts to the subjects within, theyre based on things told to him directly by those subjects. This is an interesting inclusion, in light of the recent controversy over Brad Stones approach in his book The Everything Store, on Amazon. Stone was criticized by CEO Jeff Bezos wife MacKenzie for attributing emotional states to Bezos which he was not privy to. Stone notes in his book that he was denied a direct interview for the book by Bezos. The Twitter story would be a lot less rich without the scene setting and insight that this close third-person narrative brings. The efforts taken to nail down details like clothing brands, decorations of offices and locations all add to the enjoyable picture thats painted. One of the most interesting aspects of Biltons book is how he used social media to piece together the goings-on of the founders and other employees of Twitter. The triangulation of these various bits of public record isnt exactly new, as its a technique that journalists and writers (hi) use quite a bit now. But it takes on an especial poignancy when the subjects themselves posted corroborating details to a network that they helped construct. I found it fascinating that I could piece together the interviews with dates of tweets and blog posts and then Flickr and Facebook pics, and in some instances YouTube videos, Bilton told me. It was as if the people in the book helped
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Twitter Book Offers Singular, But Fascinating Narrative Of Invention
The distillation of one human life into a few hundred pages is a task herculean enough to trip up even seasoned biographers. Expanding that to include four co-founders and a company with as explosive a history as Twitters is begging for disaster. A new book called Hatching Twitter: A True Story Of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal, from New York Times reporter Nick Bilton attempts to do just that. Its around 300 pages and packs in the nearly seven-year history of Twitter as a company and a bit more. The introduction rips along, introducing us to the four people most responsible for Twitter: Noah Glass, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey. A quick portrait of each of them is painted, albeit in fairly broad strokes. All talented, all intelligent, all searching for human connections and a way to enhance those connections using the Internet. Bilton is also careful to note in his introduction that when he attributes emotional states or thoughts to the subjects within, theyre based on things told to him directly by those subjects. This is an interesting inclusion, in light of the recent controversy over Brad Stones approach in his book The Everything Store, on Amazon. Stone was criticized by CEO Jeff Bezos wife MacKenzie for attributing emotional states to Bezos which he was not privy to. Stone notes in his book that he was denied a direct interview for the book by Bezos. The Twitter story would be a lot less rich without the scene setting and insight that this close third-person narrative brings. The efforts taken to nail down details like clothing brands, decorations of offices and locations all add to the enjoyable picture thats painted. One of the most interesting aspects of Biltons book is how he used social media to piece together the goings-on of the founders and other employees of Twitter. The triangulation of these various bits of public record isnt exactly new, as its a technique that journalists and writers (hi) use quite a bit now. But it takes on an especial poignancy when the subjects themselves posted corroborating details to a network that they helped construct. I found it fascinating that I could piece together the interviews with dates of tweets and blog posts and then Flickr and Facebook pics, and in some instances YouTube videos, Bilton told me. It was as if the people in the book helpedOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/FW3l2e3ULbc/
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