The Courier Shop

Dorsey, born in St Louis, Missouri, was interested in designing dispatch routing software by the time he was 14. Not a typical teenage obsession, perhaps, but taxicab companies are still using his software. He dropped out of New York University and left his job as a programmer at a taxi- and courier-dispatch service in 1999 to move to San Francisco. By 2000, he had started a company to dispatch couriers, taxis and emergency services via the internet. Anxious to find a new way of staying in touch with friends without having to stay tied to a computer, he approached an internet software company called Odeo, where Biz Stone worked. He wanted to create a communication service that allowed people to tell each other what they were doing. Stone, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has published two books about the growth of “social media”, and Dorsey produced a Twitter prototype in a few weeks.

via Profile Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams – Telegraph.

So knowing the one of the original applications for Twitter, why don’t more couriers use it?

Are couriers and  transport companies slow to engage modern technology?

Sarah

Twitter for Couriers and Transport companies

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