TED Talk: Evan Williams: How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses

A talk given by Evan Williams, the genius co-founder of Twitter & Blogger.com at TED.






Amazing stats:

- 47 members of US Congress have Twitter Accounts

- Twitter originally setup as a side project to Odeo

- It was just a broadcast platform, the @ replies were built much later on...

- Platform has evolved from originally being used to keep up with family and friends to now being utilised as a mass communication device upon which people help eachother out

- Evan Williams: "when you give people easier ways to share information, more good things happen"