Even more ancient email from Biz Stone

Scratch that. Found a more ancient email from @Biz Stone dated Febraury 7th 2007. Love this bit at the bottom

We made Business 2.0 magazine's list of "What's Next" at #4! We're
nestled snugly between wind power and implantable medical devices.
Reporter Michael Myser wrote that we're "catching fire."
He's right, it's getting hot in here!

Too right!

 

Hello Twitter-ers,

Is it February already? That means Twitter's been launched
publicly for over six full months now. Things are moving fast
these days. Even faster since we moved Twitter onto a seriously
impressive new server setup. Now our pages will be perky and our
little operation can continue to grow. Come on back if you get a
chance, http://twitter.com.

Vote for Twitter

Twitter has been selected as a finalist for the SXSW Web Awards.
The judges think we "revolutionize the power of publishing."
We hope we win! There's also a People's Choice category and we're
allowed to ask folks to vote for us. If you have a couple minutes
you can help us take home the prize!

Vote here: https://secure.sxsw.com/peoples_choice/

Speaking of SXSW, the conference organizers were kind enough to
work with us to do something they've never done before. They're
letting Twitter take over the hallways. Everyone knows that the
hallways at conferences are always brimming with action and this
year Twitter is going to reflect some of that action back out with
a couple big plasma monitors showing Twitter updates. We'll send
out more details on how this is going to work later but it should
be fun.

Twitter: Getting Easier

Making Twitter more obvious and easy to use is part of our ongoing
master plan. To that end, we made a few changes recently.
Specifically, your Twitter username is now more prominent. You can
still put your real name in your one line bio but it's your
username folks will see everywhere.

Displaying unique usernames means it will now be easier to tell
the difference between two people who happen to have the same real
name. So, instead of getting updates from multiple people named
"Adam" you will get updates from Adam, Adam12, and Adam_Ant. This
change also makes it simpler to direct message another person.

Example of a direct message:
d biz where are you right now?

When you text the letter "d" together with a friend's username,
that tells Twitter that you want the message to go specifically to
that friend and not to your other friends.

Twitter Updates and Upcoming Changes

Whois Command - We've added a WHOIS command to Twitter. Now, when
you text WHOIS BIZ to 40404 you will get the info I've filled out
in my settings. Try it out with anyone's username.

Fill out your one line bio: http://twitter.com/account/settings

Standardized Update Length (coming soon!) - Twitter updates will
soon be standardized to a maximum of 140 characters. Previously,
the maximum length varied and this caused some confusion. Soon,
everyone will have the same amount of characters to work with.
However, if you do run over, we'll catch the rest on the web.

Direct Message Emails - We added a new notification setting that
sends an email to you when one of your friends sends you a direct
message. This is good if you have Twitter deactivated on your
phone or IM but still want direct messages.

Friend Notification Toggle - If you don't want to get an email
every time someone makes you a friend on Twitter, you can turn
those off here: http://twitter.com/account/notifications

Welcome, Jason Goldman!

We're really excited to welcome our friend Jason Goldman to
Obvious and Twitter. Jason was formerly product manager for
Google's Blogger and he joins Obvious as Director of Product
Strategy. We're looking forward to working with Jason again.
Of course, Jason is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/goldman

His Name Is Earl

Our friend Mike Pennie writes and produces a sit-com called
"My Name Is Earl" for NBC that is all new this Thursday February 8
at 8pm (PST). Mike is going to update Twitter during the show for
viewers in the Pacific Time Zone. If you like the show, it might
be fun to follow Mike for an extra laugh.
Follow mike on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mikepennie

What's Next? Twitter in The News

We made Business 2.0 magazine's list of "What's Next" at #4! We're
nestled snugly between wind power and implantable medical devices.
Reporter Michael Myser wrote that we're "catching fire."
He's right, it's getting hot in here!

Alrighty, that's it for now.

Happy Twittering!
Biz Stone and the Twitter Team
http://twitter.com/biz

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