Twitter Could Have Been Called "Twitch," Founders Tell Jimmy Fallon [VIDEO]

Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night to discuss the origins of Twitter, which they said could have gone by a very different name.

As the guys say in the interview, when Twitter first launched, it was all about urgency, so names on the table included, "jitter" and "twitch." According to Biz Stone, "Twitter" happened to be near "twitch" in the thesaurus. Since "jitter" and "twitch" sounded too "drug addict"-like, "Twitter" it was. And it's a good thing too -- imagine uttering the phrase, "I've been Twitching all day!" Not too hot, huh?

Check out the rest of the interview above for more from the guys, as well as Rainn Wilson, who dropped in to chat with us before the Fallon interview yesterday.