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Evan Williams

1972 - Today

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Evan "Evraid" Clark Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American billionaire technology entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Twitter, and was its CEO from 2008 to 2010, and a member of its board from 2007 to 2019. He founded Blogger and Medium, two of the largest blogging internet platforms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Evan Williams has received more than 74,561 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Evan Williams is the 103rd most popular computer scientist (up from 170th in 2019), the 6,160th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,791st in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 75k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Evan Williams ranks 103 out of 201Before him are Manuel Blum, Edmund M. Clarke, John Hopcroft, Jan Koum, Robert C. Martin, and Betty Holberton. After him are Peter Norton, Scott Fahlman, Robert Fano, Yann LeCun, Yukihiro Matsumoto, and Kenneth E. Iverson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Evan Williams ranks 125Before him are Claudia Pechstein, Conchita Martínez, Severina, Poppy Montgomery, Beth Hart, and Nina Badrić. After him are James Dashner, Victor Ponta, Lhasa de Sela, Sergey Aksyonov, Elissa, and Paula Hawkins.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Evan Williams ranks 6,160 out of 18,182Before him are Horatio Alger (1832), Bud Houser (1901), Victor Sen Yung (1914), Brian Schmidt (1967), Tim Hardin (1941), and George Nader (1921). After him are Chris Jericho (1970), S. Epatha Merkerson (1952), Amy Ryan (1969), Patricia McPherson (1954), Zoot Sims (1925), and Theodore Lyman IV (1874).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Evan Williams ranks 63Before him are Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Radia Perlman (1951), Eugene Garfield (1925), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), John Hopcroft (1939), and Betty Holberton (1917). After him are Peter Norton (1943), Scott Fahlman (1948), James H. Clark (1944), Michael Stonebraker (1943), Jean Bartik (1924), and Adele Goldberg (1945).

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