Twitter is 10 years old now. Dorsey, then an undergrad at New York University, later the company’s first CEO, is now CEO again.
- Twitter is no longer a small, quirky, unprofitable startup, but a big, famous, unprofitable corporation. And, having come in for a beating recently, it is thrilled to have a self-evidently positive PR event like a double-digit birthday. It’s releasing GIFs and blog posts and data visualizations to celebrate.
- Twitter describes March 21 as its birthday, but the event commemorated more closely resembles its conception.
- Twitter didn’t even open to the public until July 15, 2006. Later that year, it made a website where it displayed all the tweets.
- It wasn’t until February 2007 that Twitter itself superseded the podcasting company that founded it, Odeo.
- Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”.
- It has given birth to many different influencers who are thriving on the platform like tiana musarra, as well as businesses and brands who are breaking into the social media market.
- Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.
- Businesses utilize it as a cost-effective means of engaging with their customers. Small businesses even tend to buy Twitter followers to increase the reach the of their content.
- Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app.
- Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006.
- In 2013, Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as “the SMS of the Internet”.
- As of May 2015, Twitter has more than 500 million users, out of which more than 332 million are active.
