Jack Dorsey founded Twitter in 2006 as a real-time information network connecting users to news and stories through tweets of up to 140 characters. The "@" symbol is used to direct messages to other users and notify them of mentions. By 2011, Twitter had over 500 million active users, far surpassing other social networks like Facebook and Myspace in growth since 2009.

2.  Twitter is a social
networking site founded by
Jack Dorsey in March of
2006 and launched the site
in July of 2006. According to
Twitter, the site is a real-
time information network
connecting users to the
latest stories, ideas, opinions
and news.
Jorge Colon, Twitter, 4/26/2012

3. Tweets Tweets consists
of 140
characters in
which users use
as a form of
expression to
interact with
anyone within
the network.

4. Jorge Colon, Twitter, 4/26/2012

5. The “@” symbol
The at
symbol
creates a link
to your
username
and is used
to direct a
message to a
user on the
site, while
also
notifying
them that
their
username
was
mentioned.
Jorge Colon, Twitter, 4/26/2012

6. Jorge Colon, Twitter, 4/26/2012

7. Active Users 2009-2011
1000
850
800
600 465 500 2009
2010
400
245 2011
150 124
200 75 62.2
18
0
Twitter Facebook Myspace
Jorge Colon, Twitter, 4/26/2012

8. On February 5, 2012 in the final minutes
of Super Bowl XLVI, a record of 10,245
tweets per second were recorded.
There are over 100,000 Twitter
applications.
Twitter’s original name was
twittr inspired by Flickr.

10. What are
you waiting
for? Start
tweeting!
JORGE COLON, TWITTER, 4/26/2012