twttr

I was all set to hate, or at least scoff at, Twitter when it launched, especially because it was called "twttr" and it just seemed to me like "West Coast Dodgeball".

Consider Twitter - Anil Dash 2007

The original product name / codename "twttr" was inspired by Flickr and the fact that American SMS shortcodes are five characters.

xian's running monolog 2009

The original product name / codename "twttr" was inspired by Flickr and the fact that American SMS shortcodes are five characters.

xian's running monolog 2009

There's the first tweet ever from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey: "just setting up my twttr"

Twitter archive lands in nation's library 2010

Upon seeing twttr in the Summer of 2006 following a comment conversation with Biz Stone on Blogger,

As It Turns Three, What Is Twitter To You? 2009

Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006: "just setting up my twttr."

Alphabet of Computing 2009

Just setting up my twttr, Dorsey wrote in the first message posted on the 140-character system on 21 March 2006.

Jack Dorsey | MediaGuardian 100 2011 2011

At least twttr was better than one of the first names they were considering for it: twitch.

Alphabet of Computing 2009

That's not a typo - twttr was the original codename for the project (inspired by Flickr).

Alphabet of Computing 2009

Some good twttr powertips here by Chris Penn: "Use a plugin like Feed Wordpress to auto-blog things in your best of Twitter feed." posted by redbarren at 6: 24 PM

And now there is geo-twittering. Ben Barren 2007