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# How Twitter became Twitter
- URL: https://helpmonks.com/blog/how-twitter-became-twitter/
- Published: 2009-02-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-06T20:08:03.000Z
- Description: Over at the TED conference this year, Evan Williams gave a 8 minutes talk on Twitter and a short history of it. He said one thing that should be of great int
- Author: Nitai
- Tags: email marketing

Over at the TED conference this year, [Evan Williams](http://twitter.com/ev?ref=helpmonks.com) gave a 8 minutes talk on Twitter and a short history of it.

He said one thing that should be of great interest for Entrepreneurs, that is that he started Twitter as a side business to their startup and that he learned to give ideas a room event thought they are not part of the core business.