Hatching Twitter: A True Story Of Money, Power, Friendship, And Betrayal

The full story of Twitter's hatching has never been told before. It's a drama of betrayed friendship and high-stakes power struggles, as the four founders went from everyday engineers to wealthy celebrities featured on magazine covers, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show, and Time's list of the world's most influential people. As twitter grew, the founders fought bitterly for money, influence, publicity and control over a company that got larger and more powerful by the day. Ultimately they all lost their grip on it. New York Times columnist and reporter Nick Bilton takes readers behind the scenes as Twitter grew at exponential speeds. Bilton's unprecendented access and exhautive investigative reporting-drawing on hundreds of sources, documents, and internal emails - have enabled him to write an intimate potrait of four frineds who accidentally changed the world and what they all learned along the way.