Facebook is a site used for social networking that encompasses currently six hundred million total users. The site allows anyone who's interested to connect with co-workers, family members, and friends simply and quickly. Originally, it was accessible only to Harvard faculty and students but it spread to other schools eventually and then, to anyone over thirteen years old. Facebook's founder is Mark Zuckerberg, a sophomore at the time of the accomplishment, and did it with a group of friends. The Winklevoss twins, although, have since made many claims and even filed a lawsuit stating they had their hand in it also.
The twins, Cameron and Tyler, are siblings who, in their twenties, sued the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. The litigious actions of the two brothers can be traced back to a spark during their final year at Harvard after several debacles involving Zuckerberg, whom they had hired to work on and program their private social media website.
The twins and their close pal Divya Narendra started working on a social networking site in 2002 while they were students at Harvard. Their project was centered around a need to be able to keep in touch with their fellow students and peers. The website, eventually named ConnectU, was planned to be one where members could send messages and pics to their fellow college classmates.
The siblings approached Mark Zuckerberg, a fellow classmate, after going through temporary programmers to finish the site's code. Tyler and Cameron had become familiar with his programming work after young Mark launched a small classmate rating website that, in a few short hours, became so popular that it shut down the school's servers. Zuckerberg and the siblings met in 2003 on November 25th and the goals of the project were outlined.
The two groups apparently entered into an oral agreement over the hiring of Zuckerberg. Over the next couple of weeks he was alloted a private server and the password that allowed him complete access to the Winklevosses codes and unfinished site. It was reportedly understood that Mark would finish the site in time for its tentative launch in exchange for pay in the form of a specific equity.
In email messages, the recently hired programmed expressed that the site's completion would be easy and fast. A subsequent email implied that he had started work on one of the site's registration pages. For a few weeks after that, although, messages between the two groups suggest that Zuckerberg was continuously unattainable but still doing work on ConnectU.
Thefacebook.com was registered as a domain name by Mark in 2004. He met with the two Winklevosses just two days later and assured them both he was working on their project but failed to mention that he was launching his own site.
Cameron and Tyler didn't learn about the Facebook side project until after it had been launched. They got another programmer to look at the code for Uconnect and he later testified that it was completely non-functional and incomplete. The brothers then sent out a letter of cease and desist and sued Zuckerberg over his broken oral contract with them after it was ignored.
The twins, Cameron and Tyler, are siblings who, in their twenties, sued the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. The litigious actions of the two brothers can be traced back to a spark during their final year at Harvard after several debacles involving Zuckerberg, whom they had hired to work on and program their private social media website.
The twins and their close pal Divya Narendra started working on a social networking site in 2002 while they were students at Harvard. Their project was centered around a need to be able to keep in touch with their fellow students and peers. The website, eventually named ConnectU, was planned to be one where members could send messages and pics to their fellow college classmates.
The siblings approached Mark Zuckerberg, a fellow classmate, after going through temporary programmers to finish the site's code. Tyler and Cameron had become familiar with his programming work after young Mark launched a small classmate rating website that, in a few short hours, became so popular that it shut down the school's servers. Zuckerberg and the siblings met in 2003 on November 25th and the goals of the project were outlined.
The two groups apparently entered into an oral agreement over the hiring of Zuckerberg. Over the next couple of weeks he was alloted a private server and the password that allowed him complete access to the Winklevosses codes and unfinished site. It was reportedly understood that Mark would finish the site in time for its tentative launch in exchange for pay in the form of a specific equity.
In email messages, the recently hired programmed expressed that the site's completion would be easy and fast. A subsequent email implied that he had started work on one of the site's registration pages. For a few weeks after that, although, messages between the two groups suggest that Zuckerberg was continuously unattainable but still doing work on ConnectU.
Thefacebook.com was registered as a domain name by Mark in 2004. He met with the two Winklevosses just two days later and assured them both he was working on their project but failed to mention that he was launching his own site.
Cameron and Tyler didn't learn about the Facebook side project until after it had been launched. They got another programmer to look at the code for Uconnect and he later testified that it was completely non-functional and incomplete. The brothers then sent out a letter of cease and desist and sued Zuckerberg over his broken oral contract with them after it was ignored.
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The Winklevoss twins have been instrumental in some of the ideas and coding that ultimately resulted in Facebook. The name Winklevoss is well known in Olympic circles as well.
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