Biz Stone
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| Born | Isaac Stone March 10, 1974 |
| Occupation(s) | creative director, software engineer, businessperson |
Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone[1] (born March 10, 1974)[2] is a co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter, Inc and also helped to create and launch Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. He has published two books about blogging, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (New Riders, 2002) and Who Let The Blogs Out? (St Martins, 2004).[3] Jack Dorsey and Stone wrote Twitter's prototype in about two weeks.[4] Stone is a resident of Berkeley, California.[5] He graduated from Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts.[6] Stone is a vegan,[7] which he became after visiting Farm Sanctuary, and is involved in causes including animal welfare, environmentalism, poverty, health and education.[8] He gave Stephen Colbert the Golden Tweet Award in 2010 on The Colbert Report.[9]
References
- ^ Biz Stone (2000-04-12). "Biz Stone:No Emails Today". Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- ^ Stone, Biz. "Today is my birthday—I'm in my 30's!". Twitter. Twitter. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- ^ Stone, Biz. "About bizstone". Flickr. Yahoo!. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
- ^ Glaser, Mark (May 17, 2007). "Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Retrieved November 5, 2008.
- ^ The Tweet Life - Biz Stone - Best of the East Bay - Diablo Magazine - July 2009
- ^ "Who should be the 2009 Bostonian of the Year?". The Boston Globe. December 14, 2009.
- ^ Dowd, Maureen (April 22, 2009). "To Tweet or Not to Tweet". The New York Times.
- ^ Evangelista, Benny (May 2, 2010). "Twitter's Ben Stone supports social causes". SFGate.
- ^ Watch Biz Stone Give Stephen Colbert the First Ever "Golden Tweet Award"
External links
- Biz Stone's website
- Biz Stone on X
- Biz Stone interview with The Swellesley Report, about his growing up in Wellesley, MA
- Biz Stone Q&A with Boston Globe Magazine
- Biz Stone Responds to Malcom Gladwell's Critique of Twitter
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