Q 01/05

In which year was Twitter created and publicly launched?

A) 2006

B) 2004

C) 2008

D) 2010

Answer · why

A) 2006

Work began in February, the first prototype served staff of the podcast company Odeo, and the public version arrived on July 15.

Q 02/05

What was the service's original five-letter code name?

A) tweet

B) twttr

C) chirp

D) txtme

Answer · why

B) twttr

The vowel-less name was inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of US SMS short codes; twitter.com was already taken.

Q 03/05

Which of these was NOT one of Twitter's four founders?

A) Jack Dorsey

B) Biz Stone

C) Kevin Systrom

D) Evan Williams

Answer · why

C) Kevin Systrom

The fourth founder, Noah Glass, came up with the name and was fired by Williams; he stayed silent about his role until 2011.

Q 04/05

What did the very first tweet, posted by Jack Dorsey in March 2006, say?

A) hello world, this is twttr

B) testing testing one two three

C) first post on the new thing

D) just setting up my twttr

Answer · why

D) just setting up my twttr

Dorsey later sold the tweet as an NFT for about $2.9 million in 2021.

Q 05/05

Twitter grew out of a side project at which startup?

A) Blogger, a blogging platform

B) Flickr, a photo-sharing site

C) Jaiku, a Finnish microblog

D) Odeo, a podcasting service

Answer · why

D) Odeo, a podcasting service

The founders formed Obvious Corporation, bought the parent company back from its investors, and spun Twitter out on its own in April 2007.