Twitter: Ambient Intimacy

Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter, then still new and tiny, calls it ephemeral, trivial, and driven by the social connections that make people tick — but unlike social networks. He and two users tell how it affects their lives and relationships.

Interviewees:
⊳ Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter and Blogger
⊳ Sarah Milstein, early Twitter user, blogger, and (later) author of "The Twitter Book"
⊳ Kate Greene, Information Technology Editor, Technology Review

2007

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.