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Evan Williams (born March 31, 1972, near Clarks, Nebraska, U.S.) is an American computer programmer who, with Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone, founded Twitter, an online microblogging service. Williams grew up on a farm but had aspirations of starting his own business, and he left the University of Nebraska at Lincoln without graduating. In the mid-1990s he briefly ran a company that he and his father set up to provide instructional material about the World...