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I'll be the first to say... Thank you for putting the vowels back in your name. "Twttr" looks horrible.

The name has always been "Twitter," but they were wanting to get the SMS short code "twttr." Unfortunately for them (fortunately for us?) someone already had it. :)

It was always PRONOUNCED twitter, but we did write it twttr, everywhere, back in the day.

Right, that's what I meant. :)

Yes, the twatter thing, wasn't something we thought of, but many other people had it pop right in to their heads. It was, unfortunate.

but be honest, how many people did you show that to that said, "what's Twatter?"

They probably couldn't afford twitter.com back in the day.

Ev had a bundle of pre-IPO google stock, so he could afford it. Also Odeo stil had cash in the bank, but he didn't want to buy the vowels until he was sure there was something to the idea.

Obvious was supposed to be a company which hacked out many ideas, a kind of incubator. The problem was one of the first batches of ideas turned in to a major run away success.

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