20091201 The twitter Trio (1)

The twitter Trio

Meet the men behind one of the world's fastest-growing social networks

Your favorite singer tells you what she just had for lunch. Then your favorite actor lets you know his Christmas plans. Next, your former classmate informs you that he's watching a movie, and your cousin tells you her latest test score. All of this information is delivered to you on one simple webpage courtesy of Twitter, the micro-blogging site that's taking the world by storm. Thanks to the Twitter trio - Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams - people around the world are connecting at the speed of a "tweet," a short update.

Dorsey has always loved cities and the way information travels through them. In 1991 at age 14, Dorsey held his first - but not his last - part-time job designing dispatching software for taxi companies in St. Louis. By 2000, he had started his own company to dispatch taxis ambulances and couriers via the Internet. The fact that the users of his software - drivers - were simply reporting their locations gave Dorsey an idea. Add to that a desire to stay better connected with friends, and he conceived the concept of Twitter.




take by storm 風靡/大獲成功
=> you attract it completely
eg: That designer's unique, environmentally friendly clothes are taking the fashion world by storm.
eg: The new movie took audiences in Asia by storm.
eg: This new teacher took her classroom by storm.

dispatching adj. 派遣的
eg: Rob works in the dispatching department of taxi company, so he is constantly communicating with the drivers.

dis- 分開
dispatch v. 分派/派遣
=> sending someone/something out to a specific place/location
eg: Companies that offer electricity, phone or cable TV services often dispatch technicians to clients' homes.
eg: The ambulance was dispatched to the scene of the car accident.
eg: Within seconds, the police dispatched two police officers to the house that reported theft.

ambulance n. 救護車
eg: Several ambulances arrived at the scene of the accident.

conceive v. 構想/想像/構思
=> think of, imagine
eg: How did the inventor conceive this creative idea?
eg: The musician took a year to conceive his latest album.
eg: The popular play was conceived by a group of young college students.

courier n. 送遞急件(或外交信件)的信差

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twitter v. 唧唧喳喳地講述事情
=> 原意:鳥叫聲 bird chirping

micro 超迷你的(用顯微鏡才看得到)
micro-blogging
microscope n. 顯微鏡
micro-blog 微網誌

mini 迷你的(micro比mini小)
the Mini
mini vacation

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With new technology comes new vocabulary!
Some new twitter-inspired vocabulary includes the word tweet.
As a noun is means a user's status update.
As a verb it means to write a status update.
RT or retweet is a verb and it means to "tweet" content from another user's update.
To DM or direct message someone is to send a private message to another user.