during this timess me was coming and being used and the first time you could send a message from cingular to verizon and it was amazing. i fell in love with the technology and the rest of the company did as well. and one day ev said "go out, think of some things to do, come back, we're going to present to the company." and i took a group of two other people and we talked about this very simple idea of being able to report where i am and what i'm doing and stlag go out in realtime over our phones and the web in 160 characters. and we were on the playground and we presented to the company. it didn't really go anywhere but then a week later we talked about it more and we decided i would take two weeks and biz stone and my other program florian and we would build the system. and we built in the two weeks and took more and more resources and the first tweet that was actually written by a human was by me and it was inviting co-workers. >> rose: inviting co-workers. >> that was the start. >> rose: how did you decide on the responsibility between you and evan and biz snz >> well, i was leading a