3. Introduction
Twitter is an online social networking service that
enables users to send and read short 140-
charactor messages called "tweets".
Registered users can read and post tweets, but those
who are unregistered can only read them.
Users access Twitter through the website
interface, SMS or mobile device app.
Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more
than 25 offices around the world.
6. History
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.
The service also handled 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 March 2016, Twitter has more than 310 million
monthly active users
8. Tweets
Tweets are publicly visible by default, but senders can
restrict message delivery to just their followers.
Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible
external applications (such as for smart phones), or
by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain
countries.
9. Content
Content of tweets according to Pear
Analytics
News (3.6%)
Spam (3.8%)
Self-promotion (5.9%)
Pointless babble (40.1%)
Conversational (37.6%)
Pass-along value (8.7%)
San Antonio-based market-research firm
Pear Analytics analyzed 2,000 tweets
(originating from the United States and in
English) over a two-week period in August
2009 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm (CST) and
separated them into six categories
10. Mobiles
Twitter has mobile apps for iphone
, iPad , Android, Windows
10, Windows
Phone, BlackBerry, Firefox OS,
and Nokia S40.
There is also version of the website
for mobile devices, SMS and MMS
service.
For many years, Twitter has
limited the use of third party
applications accessing the service
by implementing a 100,000 user
limit per application.
11. On October 21,
2015, Twitter
began to roll out
the ability to attach
poll questions to
tweets.
Polls are open for
24 hours, and
voters are not
personally
identified.
12. Technology
In the early days of Twitter, tweets were stored
in MySQL databases that were
temporally sharded (large databases were split based
on time of posting).
As of April 6, 2011, Twitter engineers confirmed they
had switched away from their Ruby on Rails search
stack, to a Java server they call Blender.
13. Interface
On April 30, 2009, Twitter adjusted its web interface,
adding a search bar and a sidebar of "trending
topics"—the most common phrases appearing in
messages.
In March 2012, Twitter became available
in ”Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu”, the first right-to-
left language versions of the site.
About 13,000 volunteers helped with translating the
menu options.
In August 2012, beta support
for ”Basque, Czech and Greek” was added, making the
site available in 33 different languages.
14. Privacy and security
A security vulnerability was reported on April 7, 2007,
by Nitesh Dhanjani and Rujith. Since Twitter used
the phone number of the sender of an SMS message as
authentication
Twitter introduced an optional personal identification
number (PIN) that its users could use to authenticate
their SMS-originating messages.
18. Ranking
Twitter is ranked as one of the ten-most-visited
websites worldwide by Alexa's web traffic analysis.
A February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked
Twitter as the third most used social network based on
their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and
55 million monthly visits.
19. Demographics
Twitter.com Top5 Global Markets by Reach (%)
Country Percent
Indonesia Jun 2010 20.8%
Dec 2010 19.0%
Brazil Jun 2010 20.5%
Dec 2010 21.8%
Venezuela Jun 2010 19.0%
Dec 2010 21.1%
Netherlands Jun 2010 17.7%
Dec 2010 22.3%
Japan Jun 2010 16.8%
Dec 2010 20.0%
20. Facts
Twitter are most of using
Actors(heroes, heroines )
Business peoples,
cricketers also using the
twitter accounts
21. Conclusion
Twitter can be an immensely powerful tool for
organizations that want to make a difference in the
world.
The key is learning the most effective way to use the
real-time information network to meet these aims.
In Twitter for Good, we've explored how any
organization can best excel on Twitter using a
straightforward and effective framework.