Our very own Jay Goldman, Head of Marketing here at Rypple hosts Status Update, butterscotch.com’s popular weekly video podcast on the world of Social Media. Check out this week’s episode on a brief history of twitter.

Twitter is an excellent example of organic crowd sourcing; as Jay Goldman explains in this episode, many of the Twitter functions we know and love were conceived by the Twitter community. Things like @ mentions, re-tweets and so on were not part of the original Twitter offering and were instead added in as developers watched the way the community was using the microblogging platform.