Why only 140 characters?

Y U NO ALLOW EMBED CBS?

Published on Mar 17, 2013

Does writing tweets within 140 characters cramp your style? Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey explains the significance of the number and why he thinks the constraint inspires creativity.

How Twitter might’ve been “Twitch”

Published on Mar 17, 2013

Before Twitter was named, Jack Dorsey and his team noticed their phones would twitch when they received updates or tweets. They thought, “How about ‘Twitch’?” But “twitch” didn’t really “bring up the best images,” Dorsey said.

They have their titles and descriptions mixed up.  I wonder if they will notice.   I swapped them around as you can see.  At least at the time of this posting.

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