Remembering Steve Jobs in 140 Characters or Less

Trisha Cruz October 7, 2011 Tweet

Where were you when you found out? I was in my bedroom, and had just woken up from an early evening nap. After checking the time on my iPhone and turning on my MacBook Pro, I logged in to Twitter to the sad news that Steve Jobs had passed away. It was an outpouring of grief on a scale that our Timelines had seldom seen. By midnight eastern time – less than five hours after Apple’s announcement of Jobs’ death – over 1.4 million tweets had been sent with his name in them.

As a memorial to Steve Jobs, we have pulled together tweets from various entrepreneurs and techies around the web that pay tribute to the man whose innovation, charisma and endless vision changed our lives forever:

Bill Gates, Microsoft founder

Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO

Steve Case, AOL co-founder

Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder

Gabe Rivera, TechMeme founder

Loic Le Meur, Seesmic.com founder

Joe Gebbia, Airbnb co-founder

Jeff Pulver, Entrepreneur

Joel Johnson, Tech Blogger

Heather Meeker, Corp Comm at GOGII VP

Peter Merholz, Adaptive Path founder

Katie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter Head of International Strategy

Mark Bao, Avecora CEO & OnSwipe CTO

Gabe Roth, via Mark Bao

Sarah Lane, TechTV personality

Daniel Brusilovsky, Teens in Tech Labs founder & CEO

Jonathan Schwartz, via Schematic Labs founder & CEO Steve Jang

Nicholas Longo, Entrepreneur

David Cohn, Spot.us founder

Greg Scholl

Andy Carvin, NPR Digital Editor

Hunter Walk, Google Director of Project Management

Naval Ravikant, Entrepreneur & Venture Hacks co-author

A personal favorite from gamer Michele Boyd:

Thank you, Steve. You will be missed.