Social Media | Interview: #DearInternet | 4
American Innovations
Wondery
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Facebook, Friendster and MySpace weren’t the only companies that pioneered social media. In 2006, a new company turned the act of “tweeting” into an opportunity for wide-ranging commentary, and made your number of “followers” a status symbol. On this episode, Steven talks to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, who also co-founded Medium.com and wrote the memoir Things a Little Bird Told Me.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American Innovations, |
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| 0:14.0 | Wondery. |
| 0:17.0 | From Wondery, I'm Stephen Johnson, and this is American Innovations. |
| 0:27.0 | Music |
| 0:45.0 | We've spent this season talking about the development of social media. |
| 0:50.0 | From early platforms like Friendster, to the Rise and Decline of MySpace, |
| 0:54.0 | to the overwhelming power and reach of Facebook. |
| 0:57.0 | One platform we didn't talk about is Twitter, the micro blogging site |
| 1:02.0 | with almost 200 million active users who send out 500 million tweets a day. |
| 1:08.0 | Today's guest, BizDone, is one of the founders of Twitter. |
| 1:11.0 | He's also a co-founder of the digital publishing platform Medium.com, |
| 1:15.0 | and one of the pioneers of blogging and podcasting. |
| 1:18.0 | He's the author of Memoir Things A Little Bird Told Me. |
| 1:22.0 | We're going to talk to him about his memories of the early days of sites like Twitter and Blogger. |
| 1:28.0 | Biz, thank you so much for joining us on American Innovations. |
| 1:32.0 | Wow, Stephen, it's great to be here. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm really happy to have you on this show. |
| 1:38.0 | We've just done this three-part series on the history of social media, |
| 1:42.0 | which really focused on, for various reasons, MySpace and Friendster and early days of Facebook. |
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