You may not have been able to fit Twitter’s initial brand name into the maximum tweet limit of 140 characters. When Twitter’s creator, Jack Dorsey, finally revealed the inspiration for its birdlike brand name, people were shocked: “short inconsequential bursts of information; chirps from birds.” Well, they soon changed it to “twttr” to better suit their previously SMS focused service before deciding to return the vowels to their brand name when they discovered that such a name had already been taken
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