Twitter creator says he was inspired by AIM...how is Twitter anything like AIM?

[TH55]

AOL instant messenger that is. Unless he was talking about the away message.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

It has more to do with the concept of it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360

 

[C DM]

Probably just the general IM/chat nature of often quick and short messages being posted to other people about nothing much, just sharing some thoughts or seeing what's going on (or sometimes sharing links, etc.).

 

[TH55]

It has more to do with the concept of it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360

Wow that's cool where did you find that?

And yeah, as I suspected it has more to do with the away message/statuses.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

Wow that's cool where did you find that?

It's one of the references on Jack Dorsey's Wiki page (citiation #16 to be exact).