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- 1. Twitter Contents 1. What is Twitter 2. Information 3. More Information 4. Thanks
- 2. What is twitter? Twitter is an online social networking service and micro blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of 140 characters, known as tweets.
- 3. Information Twitter was createdin March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million .registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet. Unregistered users can read tweets, while registered users can post tweets through the website interface, SMS, or a range of apps for mobile devices. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio.
- 4. More information • Type: Private • Foundation date: March 21, 2006 • Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States • Area served: Worldwide • Founder: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, Biz Stone • Key people: Jack Dorse, (Chairman)Dick Costolo (CEO) • Industry Internet: Revenue • US$140 million 2010 est. • Employees: 900+ (2012) • Website: twitter.com • Written in: JavaScript, Ruby, Scala, Java • Alexa rank: 10 (February 2013) • Type of site: Social network service, micro blogging • Registration: Required to post, follow, or be followed • Users: 200 million (active February 2013). • Available in: Multilingual • Launched: July 15, 2006 • Current status: Active
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