Evan Williams became the Twitter CEO in 2007 and at the time, the company only had 20 employees & 3 million users – sending out about 1.25 million tweets a day.
Now in 2010, Twitter has grown to 300 employees, 90 million tweets a day from over 165 million twitter users.
Evan Williams has been involved in a few startups, one being the notable “Blogger”, which Google acquired in February 2003.
Williams founded Obvious Corp in late 2006, one of it’s projects being a free social networking and micro-blogging service named “Twitter”.
Just this week, Evan Williams stepped down from his role as CEO for Twitter, and made way for Dick Costolo to head the Twitter giant.
From now on, Williams plans to focus on his passion, product strategy.
Dick Costolo, whose track record is just as impressive, is the founder of Feedburner, worked for Google as a Group Product Manager, became the chief operating officer for Twitter in 2009, and now, is at the Twitter helm.
For Williams’ official announcement, go to the Twitter blog.
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