Twitter Celebrates Its Seventh Birthday
Today Twitter is celebrating its seventh birthday: it is seven years to the day since co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the first ever tweet. Now, Twitter has over 200 million active users sending more then 400 million tweets every day.
To celebrate its birthday, Twitter has created a video highlighting some of the most memorable moments in its lifetime, starting with the first ever tweet sent by @Jack, which read “just setting up my twttr”.
Twitter recounts when the hashtag and retweet functions were introduced to the service in 2007, astronaut Mike Massimino’s first tweet from space, Twitter’s popularity during the World Cup in South Africa and Obama’s “Four more years” tweet after his election victory – the most retweeted message in history.
In the announcement post on the Twitter blog, editorial director Karen Wickre (@kvox) thanks all 200 milllion+ Twitter users, saying that without them, Twitter would never have become what it is today:
As we’ve grown, Twitter has become a true global town square — a public place to hear the latest news, exchange ideas and connect with people all in real time. This is where you come to connect with the world at large. Get on your soapbox to critique elected officials, or go sotto voce to the neighbor next to you. And as in other gathering places, commerce happens too (and jokes and art-making and debating, and — you get the idea).So, in seven years Twitter has amassed over 500 million registered users, 200 million of whom are active. Its servers handle 400 million tweets and almost 2 billion search queries daily. The microblogging site took in $288.3 million in ad revenue in 2012. So, where will Twitter be in another 7 years?
Where do you think Twitter will be in another 7 years?
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Twitter Celebrates Its Seventh Birthday
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