We can thank the St. Louis emergency dispatch center for Twitter.
The national spotlight was on St. Louis last night with a 60 Minutes interview, full video on view below, of Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter who grew up here and who apparently got his inspiration for Twitter by listening to the local police scanner when he was young.
"They're always talking about where they're going, what they're doing and where they currently are and that is where the idea for Twitter came," he told CBS' Lara Logan. "Now, we all have these cell phones. We had text messaging, and suddenly we can update where I was, what I'm doing, where I'm going, how I feel. And then it would go out to the entire world."
Despite his upbringing in St. Louis, and its role in inspiring Twitter, Dorsey's mayoral ambitions -- the biggest national news to come out of the interview -- are set on New York City.
But we'll try not to let that small detail spoil our St. Louis pride!
@jack There isn't a better job than being mayor - and you already have the Twitter habit. #fgs
— MayorSlay.com (@MayorSlay) March 18, 2013
So proud 4 #STL. Our own Jack Dorsey Twitter founder interviewed on 60 Minutes. We r an Entrepreneurial hotbed!cbsn.ws/YLCm9y
— Perry Drake (@pddrake) March 18, 2013
Enjoyed the #60Minutes piece on @jack. Twitter has changed my life.I'm proud of its #STL roots.
— Jill Falk (@jillfalk) March 18, 2013
Watching grt @jack Dorsey interview on #60minutes. Love reference to #STL roots, MetroLink/trains, and needing time to think and imagine.
— Courtney Sloger (@courtsloger) March 18, 2013
And we can still ask:@slmpd being shown some luv in 60mins profile of @jack. Who knew that listening to scanners spurned the idea of twitter. #stl
— Sean Hadley (@gseanh) March 17, 2013
@jack wish you wanted to become the #stl mayor!
— UrbanReviewSTL.com (@UrbanReviewSTL) March 18, 2013
Here's the full video.
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