Yashdeep Sethi Chitkara University
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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