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If you ever sketched out an idea on the back of fag packet or on a notepad and got just a little bit excited about the possibilities captured in that rabbled scribbling, you may get a kick out of these sketchbook doodlings posted on Flickr by the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.

There’s a really intriguing explanation of the thinking that led to Twitter. It began, apparently, in 2000 when Jack signed up for the venerable blogging service, LiveJournal:

One night in July of that year I had an idea to make a more “live” LiveJournal. Real-time, up-to-date, from the road. Akin to updating your AIM status from wherever you are, and sharing it. For the next 5 years, I thought about this concept and tried to silently introduce it into my various projects. It slipped into my dispatch work. It slipped into my networks of medical devices. It slipped into an idea for a frictionless service market. It was everywhere I looked: a wonderful abstraction which was easy to implement and understand.

The photo was posted in July 2006, not long after Twitter got under way, so there’s a touching conclusion to the commentary for the pic:

I’m happy this idea has taken root; I hope it thrives.

Yep – it’s thriving. At an estimated two million users now, according to a ComScore estimate in a USA Today article telling the short history of the Twitter service.

So get thinking, get doodling, and get out there – and a couple of years from now we can coo over the genesis of your idea… Boldness, magic, etc… eh?

Via PSFK