Noah Glass is an American technology

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, whose early work included launching

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 ...

and

Odeo Odeo was a directory and search destination website for RSS-syndicated audio and video. It employed tools that enabled users to create, record, and share podcasts with a simple Adobe Flash-based interface. Odeo was originally developed in 2004 b ...

, a

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company that closed in 2017. Glass is credited for coining the name "Twitter", which began as "Twttr".

Biography

Glass grew up in

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, and attended

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, where he played

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. In 1999, he matriculated at

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, where he majored in political science and was a member of the

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secret society. Upon graduating from Yale in 2003, Glass worked for Endeavor, establishing that non-profit's office in

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. After a stint at

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, Glass worked on several projects with Marc Canter, founder of MacroMind which later became

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, birthplace of the

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platform. He later developed an app that allowed a user to enter an audio blog entry from a remote cell phone location. His small start-up, known as AudBlog, was eventually folded into a partnership with Evan Williams, of

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. The duo then created Odeo, a podcasting company. In 2006, while with Odeo, Glass helped to create and develop the seed idea for what would eventually become known as

. Not only was he the prime motivating force leading to its eventual development, Glass is acknowledged as being responsible for coining the name "Twitter", which began as the

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version, "Twttr". In the book, ''Hatching Twitter'', by

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, Glass is given credit as being a Twitter co-founder, having helped realize the idea, and designing some of its core features.

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