Do you know how Twitter was born?

On March 21st, 2006 Jack Dorsey, Creator, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Twitter @jack sent the very first "tweet".

The whole idea surged as an investigative project into an small company from San Francisco called "Obvious". Inspired by Flickr's boom at that moment, Twitter was called at its very beginning "twttr" becoming what we know today: Twitter, Inc.

The idea was clear, creating a network to keep communicated people with up to 140 characters length messages; part of its success is precisely how easy to use was since five years ago.

Twitter Facts:

• After 3 years, 2 months and 1 day of first tweet, this social network generated its message number one billion
• In average every day twitter process 140'000,000 messages (140 million)
• When Michael Jackson passed away on June 25, 2009 the average number of messages per second was 456
• Current maximum number of messages per second is 6,939 and was reached during Japan's New Year celebration
• Currently, daily average of new accounts creation is 460,000
• Mobile users has increased 182% during last year
• Twitter in Spanish was born on April 30, 2009
• Twitter Whale Fail Illustration which appears when Twitter gets stuck was created by Yiying Lu @YiyingLu
• Charlie Sheen @charliesheen has the record of maximum number of followers made within 24 hours with more than 1.5 million, everything without writing any single tweet
• Twitter Headquarters are located at 795 Folsom Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
• Slogan - "The best way to discover what's new in your world"
• Current users 200+ million (2010)
• Twitter official launching date was on July 15, 2006

For more information visit: Twitter, Inc. , Wikipedia

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