Who were Twitter's first employees? To answer that, you have to go all the way back to a company named Odeo.

Meet 14 early Twitter and Odeo employees who played pivotal roles in shaping social media's evolution.

Odeo's investors accepted the deal, though some believe they got conned, believing Williams knew more about Twitter’s potential than he let on.

Odeo, a podcast directory founded in 2005 by Evan Williams of Blogger and Twitter fame that was acquired by SonicMountain over a year ago, has relaunched with a completely new design and slew of ...

This new company has purchased the assets of Odeo, Inc. (including Odeo and Twitter) from the investors and other shareholders.

Long before it was credited with changing world politics, Twitter was the side project at a podcasting company that was about to lose its customers to Apple.

A few months later, Michael Arrington added that he thought Odeo suffered from a kind of attention-deficit disorder and that after axing a few of its other start-ups, Odeo ought to consider making ...

From Odeo and podcasts to a hackathon and the first seeds of what would become a globe-spanning social network, the Twitter creation story is perhaps the best-known example of the now-legendary ...

Twitter may be one of the most influential platforms in the world today - but its beginnings were anything but smooth. Born as a side project at Odeo, Twitter's rise involved internal conflict ...

Odeo had become less of a focus for its owner, Evan Williams of late. Williams has launched a holding company, called Obvious, and has found more interest in other projects, including Twitter ...

If you don't want to run around creating profiles on every social network on the Web, there's a shortcut to maintaining a unified online identity. It's called KnowEm, and it lets you register your ...