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helenburak's review against another edition
3.0
If Nick Bilton has it right, Twitter was founded and run by a bunch of petty man-children whose egos resulted in a mini tech-based Game of Thrones, and the real wonder is that Twitter succeeded DESPITE that.
purplepierogi's review against another edition
4.0
definitely an interesting read, especially if you were a fan of the twists and backstabbing and entitlement of The Social Network, though at the analysis level this book spends more time reiterating the distinction between founders’ vision for Twitter (is Twitter about sharing what /I’m/ doing (status update) or what’s going on in the world; distilled and repeated to us explicitly at least 3x) than any deeper conversation around how founders thought abt free speech vs hate speech or how they set up moderating, or how that changed w the CEO coups, which of course is of interest now bc of the recent Elon Musk acquisition. The impression one gets is early days there weren’t enough resources to moderate at all so they just let it all roll and then later tried to stay neutral even as platform used in increasingly political spaces. The book was published in 2013 (almost 10 years ago.. gadzooks!) so there could be more said, but other books are there to say it. it does a good job of telling this story, of the founders
No fault of the author but the basic first names of the original people and their similar arcs (he was weird.. he moved to the Bay from no where.. he dropped out of college and taught himself to code.. he was too passionate for his own good..! he fell to his hubris!!!) really ran together. and the pictures at the end didn’t help either !! Lmao!
No fault of the author but the basic first names of the original people and their similar arcs (he was weird.. he moved to the Bay from no where.. he dropped out of college and taught himself to code.. he was too passionate for his own good..! he fell to his hubris!!!) really ran together. and the pictures at the end didn’t help either !! Lmao!
alexdelnorte's review against another edition
1.0
was this the retelling of a high school drama or the story of the founding of a startup-turned-world-changing app? i finished this book not knowing if it was worth the time i spent reading it so i definitely can’t say i’d recommend it.
mbbischoff's review against another edition
3.0
Thouroughly enjoyable, well researched. Occasionally too cute.
hanshadhameed's review against another edition
5.0
Loved it, it's so interesting to know how a small startup became today's Twitter. And the author know how to present it to the readers it in an interesting and thrilling manner.
herrkelm's review against another edition
4.0
really a tragic story in many ways, how people and their different drives and personalities drive their interactions and decisions
maxis's review against another edition
3.0
Don't expect a deep dive into how twitter is architected. The most technical it gets is twitter was built with Ruby on Rails and then quickly outgrew that or the servers were being constantly overloaded and the engineers were scrambling to maintain them. There's a lot of lonely young men staying up late drinking red bull and writing code. Ultimately throws Jack Dorsey under the bus.