Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012.[13] The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day.[14][15][16] In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet".[17][18] As of March 2016, Twitter has more than 310 million monthly active users
Creation and initial reaction HISTORY
A blueprint sketch, c. 2006, by Jack Dorsey, envisioning an SMS-based social network.Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student at New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.[19][20] The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass,[21] inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes. The decision was also partly due to the fact that domain twitter.com was already in use, and it was six months after the launch of twttr that the crew purchased the domain and changed the name of the service to Twitter.[22] The developers initially considered "10958" as a short code, but later changed it to "40404" for "ease of use and memorability".[23] Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST): "just setting up my twttr".[1] Dorsey has explained the origin of the "Twitter" title:
...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. And that's exactly what the product was.[24]
The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as an internal service for Odeo employees[25] and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006.[10] In October 2006, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Dorsey, and other members of Odeo formed Obvious Corporation and acquired Odeo, together with its assets—including Odeo.com and Twitter.com—from the investors and shareholders.[26] Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitter's startup until 2011.[27] Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007.[28] Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview:
With Twitter, it wasn't clear what it was. They called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didn't replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is. Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network
The Login/Sign Up page of Twitter
Type Public
Traded as NYSE: TWTR
Founded March 21, 2006; 10 years ago[1]
Headquarters San Francisco, California, U.S.[2]
Coordinates 37.7768°N 122.4166°WCoordinates: 37.7768°N 122.4166°W
Area served Worldwide
Founder(s) Jack Dorsey
Noah Glass
Biz Stone
Evan Williams
Key people Jack Dorsey (CEO)
Omid Kordestani (Chairman)
Industry Internet
Revenue Increase US$2.21 billion (2015)[3]
Net income Increase US$521 million (2015)[3]
Owner Jack Dorsey & Evan Williams[4]
Employees 3,898 (March 2016)[5]
Subsidiaries Vine
Periscope
Website twitter.com
Written in Java,[6][7] Ruby,[6] Scala,[6] JavaScript[6]
Alexa rank Steady 8 (July 2016)[8]
Type of site Social network service
Registration Required to post, follow, or be followed
Users 310 million active users (March 2016)[9]
Available in Multilingual
Launched July 15, 2006[10]
Current status Active
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