Twitter

The Company and Its Founders

By Christine Heppermann

2012

First Published

3.00

Average Rating

112

Number of Pages

3H24M

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Part of Series

Technology Pioneers

Series · 14 books

By Susan Hamen, Martin Gitlin, Ashley Rae Harris, and more

This title examines the remarkable lives of Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Christopher Biz Stone and their work building the social networking Web site Twitter. Readers will learn about each founder's background and education, as well as his early career. Also covered is a look at how Twitter operates, issues the company faces, its successes, and its impact on society. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, Web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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Author

Christine Heppermann

Author · 8 books

Christine Heppermann writes fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her books include What Goes Up (coming summer 2020); Ask Me How I Got Here; Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty; City Chickens; and the Backyard Witch series (with Ron Koertge). She currently reviews young adult books for the Chicago Tribune. Christine grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where she attended an all-girls Catholic high school. As an undergraduate she studied philosophy and literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She has a masters degree in children’s literature from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Christine lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her two daughters, two cats, and one husband.