Noah Glass

Noah Glass is an American technology entrepreneur, best known for his early work launching Twitter and Odeo, a podcasting company that closed in 2007.[1]

Career

After leaving Industrial Light and Magic, Glass worked on several projects with Marc Canter, founder of Macromind which later became Macromedia, birthplace of Shockwave and later Flash animation & multimedia software.

Glass later developed an application that allowed a user to enter an audio blog entry from a remote cell phone location. His small start-up, known as AudBlog, was eventually folded into a partnership with Evan Williams, of Blogger.com, and the duo then created Odeo, a podcasting company.

In 2006, while with Odeo, Glass helped to create and develop the seed idea for what would eventually become known as Twitter. Not only was Glass the prime motivating force leading to its eventual development, he is acknowledged as being responsible for coining the name "Twitter", which began as the abbreviated version, "Twttr," and was later changed to "Twitter." In the book, Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton, Glass is given credit as being a co-founder of Twitter,[2] having helped realize the idea, and designing some of its core features.[3][4]

gollark: Other than that, I like being able to look up things conveniently and talk to people who are not physically nearby, which is most of them.
gollark: If the internet ceased to exist, there would be an immediate and huge economic crisis as international trade imploded.
gollark: They USED to all be replaceable, but unfortunately the phone market worsened.
gollark: This is because I do not have a mouse.
gollark: I still entirely use the trackpad on my laptop for scrolling.

References
  1. "Is Noah Glass Twitter's Long Lost Winklevoss?". Fast Company. 2011-04-13. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  2. Bilton, Nick (9 October 2013). "All Is Fair in Love and Twitter". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  3. Carlson, Nicholas (13 April 2011). "An Interview With Twitter's Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass". Business Insider. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  4. Carlson, Nicholas (13 April 2011). "The Real History Of Twitter". Business Insider. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
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