Name: Chris Wetherell

Born: Unknown

  • Created Reader, a popular application developed at Google that was later discontinued.
  • Helped create the retweet function of Twitter, which he later said he regretted.
  • Started Brizzly, “a social site without all that pesky social stuff,” which neither saves nor publishes anything that the user attempts to share.

Quotes

“We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon [when we created the retweet button at Twitter]… That’s what I think we actually did.”

Websites

  • Chris Wetherell on Twitter
  • Chris Wetherell personal website
  • Brizzly official website