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WSJ wrote a profile on the twitter phenomenon.

“Twitter is the side project that took,” says company co-founder Biz Stone, 35. “Now it’s our chance to do something transformative.”

 Ismael Roldan

Biz Stone (left) and Evan Williams.

When I arrive at Twitter’s headquarters on a recent morning, Jerry Brown is waiting in the lobby — just another day at the world’s hottest high-tech company. “It’s pretty bizarre,” says co-founder Evan Williams, 37. “At least once per day we look at each other and say, ‘What the hell?’ It’s like we’re living out the script of the ultimate start-up company story.”

But other than the familiar face of California’s attorney general standing near the steel front door, you would hardly know that this little company of about 30 employees is the epicenter of the Web, used by an estimated 20 million Americans on a daily — even minute-by-minute — basis. Just how fast Twitter is growing is a company secret, but its traffic appears to be more than doubling every month.