Co-founder Jack Dorsey fired off the first tweet on March 21, 2006 “”Inviting coworkers,” 5 years later he will be tweeting again. For the next two weeks Jack Dorsey will be tweeting about Twitter’s origins. According to recently released statistics Twitter sends out over 1 billion tweets a week. This number is expected to grow exponentially as tweeting and Twitter continue to catch on globally.
Big events and big celebrities (Japan Earthquakesand Charlie Sheen) are also having a huge impact on Twitter.
The devastating earthquakes in Japan promoted a single day sign-up account record of 572,000. Mobile users are skyrocketing and Twitter is making no bones about it. It wants to grow exponentially in the mobile market. In a recent news story Jack Dorsey points out that mobile ease and communications was the intended original function of Twitter.
Celebrities are also having a huge impact on Twitter. Never is this more evident in the rising success of one celebrity named Charlie Sheen. He was catapulted quickly into the Twittersvere after tweeting his first tweet on March 1st, 2011. Since then Sheen has been working over Twitter ever since gaining popularity every day. He amassed over 1 million followers in a day. His tweets have now become stuff of legend. You can now find hear funny and memorable tweets, quotes and catchphrases be spoken all over the country. Twitter grows even more.
Jack Dorsey will be tweeting over the span of two weeks about the origins and history of Twitter. You can follow his original history of Twitter tweetsor follow the generated conversation using the hashtag #twttr.
In reference to Charlie Sheen’s #winning hashtag the Twitter blog has posted a new blog post entitled #numbers. Here you will see fascinating numbers that verify Twitter’s growth on a global scale.
Here is a sample tweet highlight from Dorsey at twitter.com/jack
Dorsey’s Tweet in reference to the original logo: “Twitter has had a number of logos, but this was the first. Created by @Biz on March 2nd at 2:20PM. http://t.co/X7CUk9”
Interesting first design. How would you compare this design to the current one? Please feel free to comment.
Also, everyone is invited to the community boards to post comments about any topic related to Twitter.
I need posters, please. Thank you.
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