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We made Twitter

Your official source for news, updates and tips from Twitter, Inc.

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Twitter is made by

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    Jeremy LaTrasse

    Dec 2005 — Present

    Created and managed operations for the servers.

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    Ev Williams

    Jan 2006 — Present

    Helped it spin out of Odeo, was CEO for a while, still a member of the board

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    Jack Dorsey

    Jan 2006 — Present

    Co-founder, was first CEO, then wasn't, now is again CEO, helped define the product, and now Chairman

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    Ben Ward

    Nov 2010 — Present

    Built several features of the Twitter developer platform: Twitter for Websites embedded widgets, Twitter Cards.

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    Michael Ducker

    Nov 2011 — Present

    Built Twitter Emoji

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    Mike Davidson

    Oct 2012 — Present

    Led design of apps, websites, branding, and services.

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    Ben Sangster

    Apr 2013 — Present

    Web developer: search, new user experience, World Cup, timelines, Tweet anatomy, media, owns web experiments

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    Andy Hume

    Jun 2014 — Present

    TweetDeck, FlightJS

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    Ian Chan

    Feb 2010 — Jun 2015

    Built several iterations of Twitter Analytics, Twitter Cards, and general improvements to twitter.com.

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    Buster Benson

    Aug 2012 — Jun 2015

    Built up analytics.twitter.com, Tweet Activity, Quick Promote

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    Luke Andrews

    Jun 2010 — Sep 2014

    Designed Twitter Ads & Analytics

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    Taylor Singletary

    Mar 2010 — May 2014

    Developer & partner support for REST, Streaming, web, and Ads APIs. Product management for dev.clever.com.

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    Michael Sippey

    Feb 2012 — Jan 2014

    Helped with product management. Tried not to screw it up too badly.

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    Mark McBride

    Oct 2009 — Oct 2012

    Streaming API, Platform, Tools

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    Matt Sanford

    Jun 2008 — Sep 2011

    OAuth implementation, Translation Tool (retired), Translation Center, twitter-text libraries (linking usernames, hashtags and URLs)

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    Jason Stirman

    Mar 2009 — Jul 2011

    Lead Internal Tools team

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    Jason Goldman

    Jan 2007 — Jul 2010

    COO and kept the ship running

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    Nelson Minar

    Jun 2007 — Jun 2010

    Advisor

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    noah glass

    Sep 2004 — Jul 2006

    Original founder, named twitter, designed first interfaces and logos.

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    rabble

    Nov 2004 — May 2006

    Tech lead (at odeo), brought in the idea of doing txt message based social network from txtmob project.

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    Jonathan Reichhold

    Incident Management, Search, Engineering lead for moving between datacenters, Workflow/Queue Management, Scaling, Reliability

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    Chris Sacca

    Invested early

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    Biz Stone

    Co-Founder

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    Paul Stamatiou

    Designer, Twitter Video

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    Trammell

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    Helena Price

    Photographer

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    amac (Alexander Macgillivray)

    General Counsel

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    Leslie Miley

    Helped design and build Mute, Password Reset, and cool code analytics stuff

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