Noah Glass

Noah Glass is an American tech entrepreneur and software developer, who is known for co-founding the social media platform Twitter and Odeo, a podcasting company that shut down in 2017. Glass is credited for coining the name "Twitter", which began as "Twttr".

Career After leaving Industrial Light & Magic, Glass worked on several projects with Marc Canter, founder of MacroMind which later became Macromedia, birthplace of the Shockwave multimedia platform.

He later developed an app that allowed a user to enter an audio blog entry from a remote cell phone location. His small start-up, known as AudBlog, was eventually folded into a partnership with Evan Williams, of Blogger. The duo then created Odeo, a podcasting company. In the book, Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton, Glass is given credit as being a Twitter co-founder, having helped realize the idea, and designing some of its core features.