Kara Visits Twitter’s San FranTwittCo HQ!
by Kara Swisher
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 12:31 AM PT
Maybe you’ve heard of Twitter?
Fooled you! Just testing to see if you’re paying complete attention to the relentless media attention on the Silicon Valley start-up of the moment!
Well, BoomTown is too, and that’s why I fired up the MINI and motored top-down on over to Twitter’s San Francisco HQ yesterday to get myself a tour of the place by none other than co-founder No-Biz-Like-No-Biz Stone.
(I am quite enjoying making up various biz puns names for him, related to the fact the the well-funded microblogging start-up has not yet settled on a business plan, which Stone quite sportingly takes with very laudable equanimity.
And my new game is to name the burgeoning empire of Twitter. Some ideas: San FranTwittCo. Twittaly. Twittonia. The People’s-With-a-Lot-of-Time-on-Their-Hands Republic of Twittopia.
Until the United Nations weighs in, here’s a patented shaky-cam Flip video of my visit to the office, to which I brought pies as a guest–I was brought up right!–and where I found no Google (GOOG) or Microsoft (MSFT) folks hiding in the closet with big bags of money to hand over to Twitter.
Well, not yet.
On the visit, I also did a video interview with Stone and Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams here.
Here is Stone’s tour of Twitter HQ:
Comments
Kara didn’t mention it, but Twitter has free indoor bike parking! Now that’s a great perk.
Posted by Stewart Midwinter at April 14th, 2009 at 12:01 pmS:
Bike parking!? Sign me up!
Posted by Kara Swisher at April 14th, 2009 at 5:00 pm