Blaine Cook (born December 19, 1980) is a Canadian software engineer, now living and working in Nelson, British Columbia.

Career

Cook is the principal co-author of the

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and

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specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

. He has also worked for

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on the Fire Eagle project and for

BT Group BT Group plc ( trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, bro ...

as part of their open source Osmosoft team. He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica. Poetica was acquired by

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in March 2016 and Cook remained with the company as a staff engineer.

References

External links

Cook's Home page

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"Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving"
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"Busy Twitter a poster child for new communications"
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