How A Spare Computer Became Twitpic, A $1.5 Million A Year Twitter Success Story on Huffduffer

How A Spare Computer Became Twitpic, A $1.5 Million A Year Twitter Success Story

Huffduffed by adewale on January 19th, 2010

In 2008, Noah Everett wanted to share photos on Twitter. Since there was no way to do it, he grabbed an old server and created Twitpic as a side project.

http://mixergy.com/twitpic-noah-everett/

Possibly related…

Why Didn’t Pownce Trounce Twitter? – with Leah Culver

We talked about more than Pownce and Twitter in this interview. Leah Culver is a developer who launched many projects. Pownce was just the highest profile of them. I asked her about it because I’m insanely curious about why it didn’t crush Twitter.

Here’s what I saw from the outside. In March 2007, when Pownce launched, Twitter didn’t have much of a head start. It only had about 250,000 members, and Twitter’s site was still unstable and often inaccessible. So Pownce launched at a good time. Plus it offered more features. Plus it had a real revenue plan with its premium accounts. Plus it was backed by Kevin Rose a Web celebrity with geek cred. Why didn’t it win?

http://mixergy.com/pownce-leah-culver/