Yashdeep Sethi

Chitkara University

Historical Facts

Prototype introduced in March 2006

Commencement of operations in July same year

Origin

• Internet company

• Based in San Francisco, California

Jack Dorsey 34

Noah Glass27

Evan Williams39

Biz Stone37

Twitter: What Is It?

“Twitter is a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now.”

CREATION

• Introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group

• Also called as SMS of the Internet.

Tweets

Tweet

• What are you doing?

• Tweets = 140-character posts / updates

• Tweets can include links to websites, pictures, videos, etc.

Twitter: “Follow” Others

• Follow other Twitter users - - e.g., CNN

• Login to your account and search for individuals, organizations, companies, etc.

• See WeFollow (http://iplindia.com)

Twitter: Direct Message (DM)

Private communication between Twitter users who are respectively “following” one another.

Growth

2007 2008 2009 2010

400,000 tweets posted per quarter

100 million tweets posted per quarter

4500 million tweets posted per quarter

5850 million tweets posted per quarter

Today 2011

200 Million users (In a Day)

200 Million Tweets (In a Day)

1.6 Billion Search queries (In a Day)

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