Twitter Development – The Paper Level

• Published by: Christopher Hennis
• November 12, 2008

Have you ever wondered what Twitter looked like in the early stages? We’re talking very early stages here — before any website files were even created. We’re talking the pencil to paper level.

Twitter – A Creation By Jack Dorsey

The first twitter sketch after Jack Dorsey had the idea to make a more “live” livejournal.

From a note circa January 2006.

casual awareness.
“what are you up to?”

multiple entry point to set status

- web
- email
- phone
- sms
- im

multiple ways to “subscribe” to status

- web
- email
- phone
- sms
- im

3 aspects

- set status
- timeline (collaborative)
- configuration

All images courtesy of Jack Dorsey’s Flickr page.