Twitter Founder: Ambulance Dispatch Inspired Concept
According to an interview with Fortune Magazine, Jack Dorsey, the founder of social networking phenomenon Twitter, thought of the idea by working as a programmer for an ambulance dispatcher.
In his online video Dorsey explains how it all began.
While growing up in St. Louis, Mo., he became interested in maps and how cities work. He taught himself how to program and make dots move on maps, and later how to plug in real data.
He went to work for a Manhattan dispatch firm, but eventually had another idea. "I realized there was one missing thing from this picture of the city," he said, "which are people."
Dorsey goes on in the video to discuss more about his inspirations and his philosophy on shaping a product.
According to Wikipedia, Dorsey is 33 years old and now resides in San Francisco, Calif. Twitter was launched in 2006 and enables its users to send and read messages - of up to 140 characters - known as tweets.
