Laura Fitton Explained

Laura Fitton
Birth Name:Laura Fitton
Birth Date:1972
Known For:Founder, Oneforty; co-Author, Twitter for Dummies
Alma Mater:Cornell University
Employer:the enough company

Laura Fitton is the founder of Twitter app store, oneforty and the co-Author of Twitter for Dummies.[1] [2]

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.[9] [10]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Buderi . Robert . How Twitter Got an App Store: The Oneforty Story (Part 1) . Xconomy.com . 22 April 2021.
  2. Web site: Buderi . Robert . How Twitter Got an App Store: The Oneforty Story (Part 2) . Xconomy.com. 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. http://pepsicowin.com/2011/03/16/pepsico-womens-inspiration-awards-at-sxswi-digitini/ Pepsico Women Inspiration Awards at SXSW
  7. Web site: Women to Watch 2011 . 2011-09-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110122032336/http://www.masshightech.com/women-to-watch/11/ . 2011-01-22 . dead .
  8. Web site: WEST Honors Four Women Technology Leaders . 2011-09-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111028140238/http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2011/06/06/daily44-WEST-honors-four-women-technology-leaders.html . 2011-10-28 . dead .
  9. Fast Company Profile "Laura Fitton, OneForty "
  10. Web site: Leggio . Jennifer . Twitter #hashtag chats emerge as future of author-driven book marketing . ZDnet . 22 April 2021.