具體描述
The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent
The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political oppression in the Middle East to a marketing must-have to the world’s living room during live TV events to President Trump’s preferred method of communication. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over the world.
But few people know that it nearly fell to pieces early on.
In this rousing history that reads like a novel, Hatching Twitter takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter’s early exponential growth, following the four hackers—Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, who created the cultural juggernaut practically by accident. It’s a drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles over money, influence, and control over a company that was growing faster than they could ever imagine.
Drawing on hundreds of sources, documents, and internal e-mails, Bilton offers a rarely-seen glimpse of the inner workings of technology startups, venture capital, and Silicon Valley culture.
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, November 2013: Spoiler alert: The subtitle sorta says it all. That is, Nick Bilton's Hatching Twitter delivers "A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal," though not necessarily in that order. The book's four central players--Ev, Jack, Biz, and Noah--conceived of Twitter while working on Odeo, an ultimately doomed attempt to revolutionize podcasting. As their little chick grew, the four men's personal and ideological differences led to a power struggle that eventually left them all on the sidelines as a former stand-up comedian took Twitter into the uncertain future. Writing with the pacing and veracity of detail of a true-crime book, Bilton makes use of a trove of source material--from internal Twitter e-mails to extensive interviews with and early tweets by the founders themselves--and the result is as exciting and fast-paced as it is topically relevant. If you're looking for a thoughtful rumination about Twitter as a revolutionary global communications platform, keep looking. If you're looking for a quick, well-written, thoroughly researched human drama, the story of an utterly dysfunctional foursome and the accelerated unraveling of their once brilliant partnership, this is your book. #HighlyRecommended. --Jason Kirk (@brasswax)
Review
"A fast-paced and perceptive new book by Nick Bilton." -- The New York Times
"Extensively detailed... unexpectedly addictive." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Deeply reported and deliciously written." -- The Verge
"A compelling read, more like espionage than a corporate history." -- Fortune Magazine
"A dramatic and detail-rich recounting." -- Cnet
"Fast-paced... a perceptive read." -- USA Today
"Goes where no book has gone before." -- The Huffington Post
"Unputdownable." -- Wall Street Journal Columnist
用戶評價
##4.5星
評分##對twitter本身的産品和技術變化描述的太不夠；充滿瞭人的細節，小說一般的閱讀體驗
評分##對twitter本身的産品和技術變化描述的太不夠；充滿瞭人的細節，小說一般的閱讀體驗
評分##毫無跟創業, 科技, 商業, 或産品有關的洞見.. 多是人物描寫公司內鬥.. 要不剛好趕著Twitter上市來齣版就是本沒意思的邊緣傳記..
評分值得一讀，雖然戲劇化得稍過瞭一點點。
評分##4.5星
評分##Was it about ego, or was it about others? Jack Dorsey和Evan Williams互不相讓的這個議題，既是Twitter初創時的爭論焦點，也反映瞭今天各種SNS的定位和競爭，真不是三言兩語說得清的，簡直是web 2.0的終極問題，引人深思。又，作者是如何把紀實類作品寫齣fiction的味道的？比劇本還精彩。
評分##amazingly good read. like a novel but based on real story. The only one that glitters is the one who won.
評分##噱頭很夠，另外跌宕起伏+畫麵感明顯就是奔著被改編去的，但越讀越感覺加瞭很多不必要和刻意的戲劇感，另外感覺很多地方挖掘的都不深入，比《迪斯尼戰爭》低瞭不止一個檔次
