Short Conversations with [Twitter founder and CEO] Jack Dorsey

Long before creating Twitter, Jack Dorsey helped create Xanga, one of the original blogging communities. I was "friends" with Jack on Xanga, and in 2006 he started posting about his new site called Twitter (click on photo for bigger image).

Since I was one of his only Xanga friends using his new "Twitter" site, he made a special post to thank me.

As one of the first Twitter users, I helped with some early Twitter Beta testing.

Jack also emailed me directly a few times, which was neat.

As one of the earliest Twitter users, I've also got some firsts under my belt.

"Hide Away" by Peter Kruse Featured on "AbletonOP"

"Hide Away" is one of my original hammered dulcimer songs from my album "Sundown". A while back I noticed it had been garnering hundreds of listens in a short time, and I had no idea why until today. A comment was left on that song which said that www.abletonOP.com featured my song in a tutorial. I encourage you to check out that tutorial if you use Ableton software and are looking for a good hammered dulcimer sound (Link)!

Click Here to purchase "Hide Away"

This reminds me of when the giant social news blog Mashable used my band Rufus Tree's song to announce the release of Xanga Audio (Link). When Mashable initially announced the release, they used a Rufus Tree song I wrote on their blog. Since then, Xanga has gotten rid of their audio feature, so the link on Mashable is broken. But here's the old Rufus Tree song that Mashable featured: