HOW DID TWITTER START? | THE HISTORY OF TWITTER

How was Twitter founded?

Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. By 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet”. As of 2020, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users.

Why was Twitter invented?

Smartphones were still new when founder Jack Dorsey first invented Twitter, who wished to use his mobile phone to send text messages to a website and get the message transmitted to all of his friends. At that point, most of the friends of Dorsey didn’t have text-enabled mobile phones and used their home computers instead. Twitter was born out of the desire to allow text messages and provide a cross-platform capability, running on the phone, laptops, and other digital devices.

The first Tweet ever?

Jack Dorsey sent the first message on Twitter on March 21, 2006. It read, "just setting up my twttr."

The journey of character limit from 140 to 280!

The reason Twitter maintains a character cap on tweets is that Twitter was initially developed as a forum focused on SMS. In its early days, the cap set by mobile operators with SMS protocol format was 140 characters, so Twitter was clearly creatively limited. As Twitter gradually evolved into an online platform, the 140-character cap persisted as a branding issue.

However, in 2017 Twitter determined that the 140-character limit was no longer valid in the mobile era and that the tweet length was raised to 280 characters. 

Some amazing Twitter facts!

· There are 330 million monthly active users and 145 million daily active users on Twitter.

· Twitter first made a profit in Q4 2017.

· A total of 1.3 billion accounts have been created.

· Barack Obama has the most followers, with over 111m, followed by Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.

· Taylor Swift is the most influential person on Twitter. Donald Trump came second, with Narendra Modi in 3rd place.

· 83% of the world’s leaders are on Twitter.

· 79% of accounts are held outside of the U.S.

· Twitter estimates 23m of its active users are actually bots.

· There are 500 million tweets sent each day. That’s 6,000 tweets every second.

· During the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final, 618,725 tweets were sent in a single minute.

· A day’s worth of tweets would fill a 10 million page book.

Countries based on number of Twitter users as of July 2020(in millions)

These are some of the most fascinating and up-to-date figures and information we could find on Twitter. These numbers offer a helpful and informative summary of Twitter usage.

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