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Hatching Twitter: Interview with author Nick Bilton

Twitter. With more than 400 million users a month, it’s the second-most-popular social network in the world. A report from the Pew Research Center's Journalism Project found that nearly ten percent of adults get their news from Twitter.

Here in San Francisco, the company’s officially part of the city’s fabric -- online and off. New York Times Tech columnist Nick Bilton is  the author of “Hatching Twitter: A story of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal."

"It is a story about a company that changed the way we do  everything from business to religion," Bilton tells KALW's Holly Kernan. "But it’s also a story about four guys who accidentally came together and created Twitter. Some of them became celebrities along the way, and some of them ended up with nothing."

Click the player above to listen to Nick Bilton's conversation with KALW's Holly Kernan.

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Leila Day is a Senior Producer at Pineapple Street Media and is the Executive Producer and co-host of The Stoop Podcast, stories about the black diaspora. Her work has been featured on NPR, 99% Invisible, the BBC as well as other outlets. Before The Stoop, she was an editor at Al Jazeera's podcast network and worked on creating and editing award winning narrative driven journalism. She began her career in journalism at KALW where she worked as a health care and criminal justice reporter. During that time she contributed as an editor, taught audio storytelling to inmates at San Quentin, and helped develop curriculum for training upcoming reporters.