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Nick Bilton is the lead technology writer for the New York Times Bits blog and a reporter for the paper he has also worked in the research and development labs at the times. Where he helps chart the path for the future of news.

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A fun and interesting read, and I always appreciate short chapters!
 
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ppival | 21 other reviews | Nov 24, 2024 |
I like this kind of book. It’s an irreverent view of the geeks and misfits who created Twitter, perhaps the most used but least necessary software on the planet. That is, until Elon got a hold of it.

This book was first published in 2013 and so much has changed since then. Twitter (now X, in what has to be the silliest of rebrandings) has become perhaps less relevant than it ever was. Musk has seen the price fall through the floor and see value evaporate.

Fun book if you like business origin stories, but he really needs to do a follow-up, perhaps annually.… (more)
 
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ecw0647 | 21 other reviews | Jan 14, 2024 |
Good story, but the writing was a bit too choppy, Dragnet style, for me, and over the length of the book, it started feeling more like a list of facts than a book.
 
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danielskatz | 21 other reviews | Dec 26, 2023 |
Really well-done true crime story. Bilton get is inside the heads of the key figures in the Silk Road story.
 
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decaturmamaof2 | 21 other reviews | Nov 22, 2023 |

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