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the author, "the new york times" tech report nick bilton who is joining us from san francisco. what was twitter supposed to be? >> that is the billion dollar question. or the $25 billion actually if you look at the ipo. twitter was different for everyone. it was started by four people that collectively were trying to build something that would, you know, communicate with each other and connect to friends. but they had different ideas of what it was. the genesis of it, the real moment, was with jack dosey and noah glass. they were two close friends and worked at a podcasting company in 2005-2006 and the company was failing. noah and jack were out drinking and jack had an idea you could build something that would allow you to say what you are doing like i am drinking, or i am eating, or i am at the park. and noah had the idea to share with friends. he was going through a difficult time, noah was, and he thought twitter would make you feel less alone. everyone had a different concept of what it was once it started growing. >> host: how did the name come about? >> it came about fro

the author nick bilton joins us from san francisco. >> the billion dollar question. the $25 billion question if you look at twitter bot ipo. it is something that is different for everyone. it was started by four people and they were collectively trying to build something that would communicate with each other, would connect them to their friends. they all had different ideas of what it was. the genesis of it, the moment that it started, was to gentlemen. jack dorsey and noah glass. thatwork for a company produced podcast in early 2005. it was in san francisco. the company was failing. noah and jack had been out drinking. jack had this idea that you could build something that would what you to tell people you were doing in real time. , his cofounder's company, he had the idea that they would be able to share with their friends. you could connect with your friends. he was going through a difficult private time. they thought that twitter would make you feel less alone. that was the genesis of the idea. everyone had a different concept of what it was. >> how did the name

. >> nick bilton looks at the origins of twitter tonight on "the communicators." >> back now to the brookings for more on the federal reserve and avoiding a future financial crisis. >> one of the consequences of the financial crisis has been an enormous increase in the prominence of the federal reserve. and with that an enormous increase in the criticism of it. and the political backlash to our perception that the sickly the fed bailed out wall street and main street got screwed. ben bernanke said on 60 minutes that he did not set out to save wall street, he set out to save main street. in order to save main street he had to save wall street, which is logically to -- logically true and twice as long as the average attention span of an american. think about where the fed independence stands and the , we asked asks colleague of mine from the .rookings institution we are going to discuss that christina romer. rogoff has done a lot of things and has written about what has happened to economy in the wake of financial crisis. it turns out to be an interesting and relevant question. >> inc. you, dav

. >> new york times tech reporter nick bilton looks at the origins of twitter tonight on the communicators at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2. on c-span,rrow here live coverage of president obama's state of the union speech. this morning, we got a preview of what he might say during "washington journal." host: welcome back. our guest is todd zwilling. tomorrow, president obama heads to capitol hill for the state of the union. guest: this is his sixth speech. for those of us that work around here, let's be honest. it is one of the rare occasions that the public really pays attention to the president and congress. things pop up when there is a big news event. this is his chance to capture the attention of the country in primetime. ratings last year were down for the state of the union, among the lowest in the last 20 years or 30 years. still there were 30 million viewers, which is a lot. it is not celebrity bachelor. but it's pretty good. you are looking for public attention and that is the president's opportunity. from the president's perspective this comes as no surprise. he has a congress that

the name of the book is "hatching twitter: a true story of money, power, friendship and betrayal" nick bilton of "the new york times" is the author. >> a look at the role the administration wants young people to have on the affordable care act. and then the south carolina tea party's convention. and then the hudson forum on communication policy. >> a look at the role the administration wants young adults to have. our guest was rebecca adams of cq health beat. follow us on twitter. >> "washington journal" continues. >host: our guest for this segmet is rebecca adams. a was a big wrench mark of the affordable care act, >> the role of young people is one of the bench marks. tell us what you are seeing? >> on january 13th, the first demographic breakdown was put out. the administration is showing 40% of the sign ups would be among young people. so far what we are seeing is about 24% of the people signing up are young people. now that is in proportion to the population. about 26% of the population is young people. so the administration has a lot of ground to make up. >> taking a look at the numbers

nick bilton of the new york tiles is the author. new york times is the author. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> both chambers of congress are back in session this week as the house gavels in at noon eastern. on the agenda, a bill that would ban federal funding for abortions and possible consideration of the farm bill conference report. roll call votes are scheduled for after 6:30 be eastern. over in the senate, members return at 2 ian to continue -- eastern to continue work on scheduled flood insurance rate increases delay. a procedural vote is scheduled for 5:30. watch the house live on c-span and the senate here on c-span2. >> bill and hillary began their teaching careers at the university of arkansas. bill came right after graduating from yale in 1973, and hillary came a year later. hillary clinton's career began right inside this building, the leffler law school at the university of arkansas, where she was a professor. she taught classes s

. >> coming up on c-span, "the communicators," with author nick bilton. after that, c-span fost first lady series featuring barbara bush. then a conversation with supreme court justice even breyer. >> c-span, created by american cable companies in 1989. it is a public service of your television provider. >> hatching twitter: a true story of money, power, friendship, and betrayal," is the name of the book. the author nick bilton joins us from san francisco. >> the billion dollar question. the $25 billion question if you look at twitter bot ipo. it is something that is different for everyone. it was started by four people and they were collectively trying to build something that would communicate with each other, would connect them to their friends. they all had different ideas of what it was. the genesis of it, the moment that it started, was to gentlemen. jack dorsey and noah glass. thatwork for a company produced podcast in early 2005.