发表于2025-05-02
Nick Bilton is a columnist and reporter for The New York Times, where he explores the disruptive aspects of technology on business, culture and society. His columns span everything from the future of technology and privacy to the impact of social media on the Web. He is a regular guest on national TV and radio and is the author of I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works. He lives in Los Angeles.
The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent
The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political oppression in the Middle East to a marketing must-have to the world’s living room during live TV events to President Trump’s preferred method of communication. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over the world.
But few people know that it nearly fell to pieces early on.
In this rousing history that reads like a novel, Hatching Twitter takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter’s early exponential growth, following the four hackers—Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, who created the cultural juggernaut practically by accident. It’s a drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles over money, influence, and control over a company that was growing faster than they could ever imagine.
Drawing on hundreds of sources, documents, and internal e-mails, Bilton offers a rarely-seen glimpse of the inner workings of technology startups, venture capital, and Silicon Valley culture.
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, November 2013: Spoiler alert: The subtitle sorta says it all. That is, Nick Bilton's Hatching Twitter delivers "A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal," though not necessarily in that order. The book's four central players--Ev, Jack, Biz, and Noah--conceived of Twitter while working on Odeo, an ultimately doomed attempt to revolutionize podcasting. As their little chick grew, the four men's personal and ideological differences led to a power struggle that eventually left them all on the sidelines as a former stand-up comedian took Twitter into the uncertain future. Writing with the pacing and veracity of detail of a true-crime book, Bilton makes use of a trove of source material--from internal Twitter e-mails to extensive interviews with and early tweets by the founders themselves--and the result is as exciting and fast-paced as it is topically relevant. If you're looking for a thoughtful rumination about Twitter as a revolutionary global communications platform, keep looking. If you're looking for a quick, well-written, thoroughly researched human drama, the story of an utterly dysfunctional foursome and the accelerated unraveling of their once brilliant partnership, this is your book. #HighlyRecommended. --Jason Kirk (@brasswax)
Review
"A fast-paced and perceptive new book by Nick Bilton." -- The New York Times
"Extensively detailed... unexpectedly addictive." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Deeply reported and deliciously written." -- The Verge
"A compelling read, more like espionage than a corporate history." -- Fortune Magazine
"A dramatic and detail-rich recounting." -- Cnet
"Fast-paced... a perceptive read." -- USA Today
"Goes where no book has gone before." -- The Huffington Post
"Unputdownable." -- Wall Street Journal Columnist
Hatching Twitter 下载 mobi pdf epub txt 电子书 格式 2025
Hatching Twitter 下载 mobi epub pdf 电子书##对twitter本身的产品和技术变化描述的太不够;充满了人的细节,小说一般的阅读体验
评分##这是一本讲twitter创业历程的书。它刚出版我就很捧场地买了,不过这本书写的不是很好。当然文笔就不用说了(跟吴军、Paul Graham相比,大部分科技作者的文笔都是渣渣),可故事也比较蛋疼,好像整本书都在讲公司内部的政治斗争:一会你是我老板一会我是你老板然后你炒了我接着...
评分 评分##总算读完 越到后面越无聊 以后这种内容吧 写一篇文章不就好
评分##本书详细讲述twitter的发展史。感觉基本上是一部创始人从朋友变敌人,勾心斗角的历史。Twitter本身的产品发展反而相对比较简单。 书中披露了许多email、谈话、会议的细节,作者说这些是数百个小时的采访,1000多份内部文件和数不清的互联网上的资料中挖掘出来的。 令人吃惊的...
评分##很少有一本书如同《孵化Twitter:从蛮荒到IPO的狂野旅程》那样让人读了如此激情澎湃了。整个阅读的过程就如同看一部好莱坞大片,让人沉浸在环环相扣的情结中,看几位主角轮番上演自己的精彩戏码,最终还会有一个皆大欢喜的大结局:Twitter上市了并且备受追捧。一家全球各国...
评分##这本书有点美国合伙人那个感觉。(陈的中国合伙人) 一、嬉皮士黑客式的创业 轻创业,重创意重产品。 谷歌类还是重技术资本。亚马逊重运营管理。 正面 黑客+工程师,互联网产品+艺术家,嬉皮士、反利维坦的无政府主义(左翼反不平等、人本主义),赛博朋克世界的朋友(社交需求...
评分##amazingly good read. like a novel but based on real story. The only one that glitters is the one who won.
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