Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and was launched that July. By 2012, more than 100 million users tweeted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.The company went public in November 2013. By 2022, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. Among them, there are 81 million active Twitter users in the US, accounting for about a quarter of the country’s population.
The company’s milestones:
2006 – Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams.
August 2007 – The hashtag “#” makes its debut, supposedly started by user Chris Messina.
2010 – The first unassisted off-Earth Twitter message was posted from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer on January 22, 2010.
2011 – Twitter hit 100 million monthly active users.
On June 5, 2012 – A modified logo was unveiled through the company blog, removing the text to showcase the slightly redesigned bird as the sole symbol of Twitter.
By 2012 – More than 100 million users tweeted 340 million tweets a day,[13] and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.
January 24, 2013 – Twitter released Vine as a standalone app that allows users to create and share six-second looping video clips.
On April 18, 2013 – Twitter launched a music app called Twitter Music for the iPhone.
2015 – Twitter added a new feature, Moments, which allowed users and the service itself to create curated thematic collections of tweets and other content.
On January 20, 2017 – Twitter launched an Internet archive of all Vine videos that had ever been published.
In 2022 – Twitter has over 340 million monthly active users. Among them, there are 81 million active Twitter users in the US, accounting for about a quarter of the national population.
In October 2022 – Twitter sold itself to billionaire Elon Musk.
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