50 million active Twitter users log in to Twitter every single day. 230 million tweets are sent every day. Twitter is one of the most widely-used and well-known social networks that exists. In just 140 characters, people share their political views, jokes, favorite things, and more. With a lot of hard work from Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, and many others this Internet phenomenon was able to manifest. Readers explore the lives of the main...

Jobs remain the biggest concern among Americans. With a national unemployment rate of 8% and a country graduating classes of young adults facing the toughest jobs market in half a century, Americans are confronted with a host of questions about their future. That’s where Betty Liu steps in. It used to be that people received wisdom from their elders and that wisdom worked well in advancing oneself in a largely uniform society. But times have changed...

"Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed podcasting company. Today Twitter boasts more than 200 million active users and has affected business, politics, media, and other fields in innumerable ways. Now Nick Bilton of the New York Times takes readers behind the scenes with a narrative that...