Photo: #Twitter co-founders Biz Stone (right) and Evan Williams (middle) talk with Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Twitter co-founders Biz Stone (right) and Evan Williams (middle) talk with Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. (Dan Bayer/Courtesy of the Aspen Institute)

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2010

The 2010 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2010

Founders of Twitter tell their story at Aspen Ideas Festival


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Twitter has become an online sensation, with some 160 million registered users and almost 100 million "tweets" posted every day. Two of the co-founders of Twitter explain how this company, and this phenomenon, came to be -- and where it is headed. Evan Williams and Biz Stone spoke at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival.

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  • Biz Stone: Co-founder and creative director of Twitter.com. Stone also helped make Xanga, Blogger, and Odeo, and is the author of "Who Let the Blogs Out?"
  • Evan Williams: Co-founder and former CEO of Twitter.com, Williams recently stepped down as CEO to do more product development work at Twitter. Williams helped make several Internet companies, including Blogger. He also previously worked at Google.

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