this web service is known for simplicity
short sentences and stupid spelling
Twitter when they write about this
thousands and thousands and thousands of
years from now Twitter will be the
indicator that it was the beginning of
the end of civilization welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
learning more about the history of
Twitter today the social networking and
microblogging service twitter gives
users 140 characters with which to
express themselves these short public
posts are known as tweets and are
displayed to followers in reverse
chronological order on their twitter
main page the word Twitter is defined as
chirps from birds or a short bursts of
inconsequential information which
conveys exactly what the service does
Twitter’s history dates back to nineteen
ninety nine when Evan Williams founded
the web journal service blogger within
four years blogger was bought by google
which introduced williams to google
employee biz stone by late two thousand
four Williams left Google to co-found a
podcasting service with no a glass
called oto and stone quickly joined them
however the company failed to gain
traction so Williams turned to a staff
for new ideas star odio employee Jack
Dorsey suggested a service that focused
on status updates with everyone
committed to that idea glass and
developer Florian Weber helped spearhead
the creation of a trial product and on
March 21st 2006 Dorsey sent the first
tweet o do employees were the first to
embrace this new service by July Twitter
was introduced to the public and was
getting coverage in tech media Twitter
turned heads in august two thousand six
after news of a small earthquake in San
Francisco quickly spread through the
service within months thousands of users
joined up Williams then bought out o do
investors he renamed the company the
obvious corporation in october two
thousand six and fired glass Twitter’s
big splash came in march two thousand
seven at the south by southwest festival
in austin texas usage rose from 20,000
to 60,000 tweets per day thanks to
strategically placed plasma screen
means that streamed Twitter updates by
April Twitter was its own company and
one of its first investors was vc fred
wilson Dorsey was CEO early on until
Williams took over in october two
thousand eight making Dorsey chairman
following that the company went through
more leadership changes before Dorsey
finally rejoined as executive chairman
in 2011 when Dick Costolo with CEO
through it all Twitter grew
exponentially massive spikes were seen
during prominent events like the fifa
world cup and the olympics in addition
to breaking news stories like the death
of Michael Jackson or the 2011
earthquake in Japan in cases of natural
disasters Twitter even served to reunite
survivors with families and loved ones
in 2011 Twitter emerged as the next
generation newsroom with users sharing
links and retweeting pertinent stories
whether it was the news of Steve Jobs
resignation or his passing or word that
the United States had finally gotten of
sama bin Laden Twitter became the
preeminent way people got their news in
fact news often broke on Twitter before
mainstream websites announced it the
service also became an integral part of
sweeping social change protesters in
Tunisia Egypt and throughout the world
relied on Twitter to stoke their
demonstrations the Occupy movement
subsequently used it to spread its
message as well Twitter’s coverage of
prominent court cases was also
significant online users reacted
fiercely when casey anthony was
acquitted of her daughter’s murder while
a similar effect was felt after Conrad
Murray was found guilty of involuntary
manslaughter in the death of Michael
Jackson politicians also use Twitter to
varying degrees of success while some
like President Barack Obama used it to
connect with constituents about issues I
am going to make history here as the
first president to live tweet others
like congressman anthony weiner were
forced to resign for misusing the
service last friday night i tweeted a
photograph of myself that I intended to
send us a direct message as part of a
joke to a woman in Seattle once I
realized I had posted to Twitter I
panicked I took it down and said that I
had been hacked on the more frivolous
front celebrities ranging from Shaquille
O’Neal
kutcher and Charlie Sheen used the
service to communicate with legions of
followers in the process Twitter
flattened the traditional dynamics of
public relations and stardom news of
Beyonce’s pregnancy became Twitter’s
biggest celebrity news story of 2011 by
the end of 2011 Twitter boasted 300
million users it will undoubtedly
continue bringing people together of
similar interests for years to come
short sentences and stupid spelling
Twitter when they write about this
thousands and thousands and thousands of
years from now Twitter will be the
indicator that it was the beginning of
the end of civilization welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
learning more about the history of
Twitter today the social networking and
microblogging service twitter gives
users 140 characters with which to
express themselves these short public
posts are known as tweets and are
displayed to followers in reverse
chronological order on their twitter
main page the word Twitter is defined as
chirps from birds or a short bursts of
inconsequential information which
conveys exactly what the service does
Twitter’s history dates back to nineteen
ninety nine when Evan Williams founded
the web journal service blogger within
four years blogger was bought by google
which introduced williams to google
employee biz stone by late two thousand
four Williams left Google to co-found a
podcasting service with no a glass
called oto and stone quickly joined them
however the company failed to gain
traction so Williams turned to a staff
for new ideas star odio employee Jack
Dorsey suggested a service that focused
on status updates with everyone
committed to that idea glass and
developer Florian Weber helped spearhead
the creation of a trial product and on
March 21st 2006 Dorsey sent the first
tweet o do employees were the first to
embrace this new service by July Twitter
was introduced to the public and was
getting coverage in tech media Twitter
turned heads in august two thousand six
after news of a small earthquake in San
Francisco quickly spread through the
service within months thousands of users
joined up Williams then bought out o do
investors he renamed the company the
obvious corporation in october two
thousand six and fired glass Twitter’s
big splash came in march two thousand
seven at the south by southwest festival
in austin texas usage rose from 20,000
to 60,000 tweets per day thanks to
strategically placed plasma screen
means that streamed Twitter updates by
April Twitter was its own company and
one of its first investors was vc fred
wilson Dorsey was CEO early on until
Williams took over in october two
thousand eight making Dorsey chairman
following that the company went through
more leadership changes before Dorsey
finally rejoined as executive chairman
in 2011 when Dick Costolo with CEO
through it all Twitter grew
exponentially massive spikes were seen
during prominent events like the fifa
world cup and the olympics in addition
to breaking news stories like the death
of Michael Jackson or the 2011
earthquake in Japan in cases of natural
disasters Twitter even served to reunite
survivors with families and loved ones
in 2011 Twitter emerged as the next
generation newsroom with users sharing
links and retweeting pertinent stories
whether it was the news of Steve Jobs
resignation or his passing or word that
the United States had finally gotten of
sama bin Laden Twitter became the
preeminent way people got their news in
fact news often broke on Twitter before
mainstream websites announced it the
service also became an integral part of
sweeping social change protesters in
Tunisia Egypt and throughout the world
relied on Twitter to stoke their
demonstrations the Occupy movement
subsequently used it to spread its
message as well Twitter’s coverage of
prominent court cases was also
significant online users reacted
fiercely when casey anthony was
acquitted of her daughter’s murder while
a similar effect was felt after Conrad
Murray was found guilty of involuntary
manslaughter in the death of Michael
Jackson politicians also use Twitter to
varying degrees of success while some
like President Barack Obama used it to
connect with constituents about issues I
am going to make history here as the
first president to live tweet others
like congressman anthony weiner were
forced to resign for misusing the
service last friday night i tweeted a
photograph of myself that I intended to
send us a direct message as part of a
joke to a woman in Seattle once I
realized I had posted to Twitter I
panicked I took it down and said that I
had been hacked on the more frivolous
front celebrities ranging from Shaquille
O’Neal
kutcher and Charlie Sheen used the
service to communicate with legions of
followers in the process Twitter
flattened the traditional dynamics of
public relations and stardom news of
Beyonce’s pregnancy became Twitter’s
biggest celebrity news story of 2011 by
the end of 2011 Twitter boasted 300
million users it will undoubtedly
continue bringing people together of
similar interests for years to come
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