Evan Williams, founder and chief executive of Twitter, will be at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln April 10 for a series of student events. The events include a question-and-answer session, a meeting with students from the College of Journalism and Mass Communications and an interview foor the Campus Voices radio program. The question-and-answer segment will be streamed for the public on the Internet at http://newsnetnebraska.org and http://raikes.unl.edu.

Twitter is a growing social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send and read other users' 140-character updates called tweets. As many as 5 million users are on Twitter, making it the third most popular social media application.

Williams grew up on a farm outside Clarks and moved to Columbus during his senior year of high school, graduating from Columbus High School in 1990. He was enrolled at UNL through his sophomore year. He returned to Nebraska in 1993 and started his first Internet company in Lincoln in 1994.