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Laura Fitton

Laura Fitton is the founder of Twitter app store, oneforty and the co-Author of Twitter for Dummies.

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Laura Fitton
Born
Laura Fitton

1972 (age 53–54)
Alma materCornell University
Employerthe enough company
Known forFounder, Oneforty; co-Author, Twitter for Dummies

Laura Fitton is the founder of Twitter app store, oneforty and the co-Author of Twitter for Dummies.12

Career

Fitton is the founder of the Twitter app store oneforty which was acquired by HubSpot in August 2011.3

In 2010 she was listed in Fast Company as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology,4 and by Huffington Post as a Female Founder to Watch in Twitter.5

In 2011 she received PepsiCo's Women's Inspiration Network award,6 MassHighTech designated her a Woman to Watch 7 and she received a Women Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology (WEST) Leadership Award.8 She also appeared on Mashable's 44 Female Founders Every Entrepreneur Should Know list in 2012.

Fitton is the co-Author of the book Twitter for Dummies.910

References

References

  1. Buderi, Robert. "How Twitter Got an App Store: The Oneforty Story (Part 1)". Xconomy.com. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  2. Buderi, Robert. "How Twitter Got an App Store: The Oneforty Story (Part 2)". Xconomy.com. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  3. Wall Street Journal. "Annals Of PR: HubSpot Buys oneforty, Says ‘Tweet This’" August 18, 2011.
  4. Fast Company Women in Tech: Evangelists
  5. Huffington Post Female Founder in Tech to Follow on Twitter.
  6. Pepsico Women Inspiration Awards at SXSW
  7. "Women to Watch 2011". Archived from the original on 2011-01-22. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  8. "WEST Honors Four Women Technology Leaders". Archived from the original on 2011-10-28. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  9. Fast Company Profile "Laura Fitton, OneForty Archived 2011-10-25 at the Wayback Machine"
  10. Leggio, Jennifer. "Twitter #hashtag chats emerge as future of author-driven book marketing". ZDnet. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
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