Jack Dorsey had grown interested in the simple idea of being able to know what his friends were doing. Specifically, Jack wondered if there might be an opportunity to build something compelling around this simple status concept. When he brought the idea up to his colleagues, it was decided that a prototype should be built.
Twitter was funded initially by Obvious, a creative environment in San Francisco, CA. The first prototype was built in two weeks in March 2006 and launched publicly in August of 2006. The service grew popular very quickly and it soon made sense for Twitter to move outside of Obvious. In May 2007, Twitter Incorporated was founded. (http://twitter.com/about)
I have figured out a way that I can use Twitter in my classroom by allowing my students to make accounts, while working on a research project, and tweet about their findings as they find them. This way I can make sure that they are staying on task and observe their knowledge of how to use the technology.
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