SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILE Twitter URL https www twitter com MARCH 2006 Twitter is launched as twttr com PURPOSE Twitter is an online social networking service that allows users to post short messages CURRENT CEO Jack Dorsey NUMBER OF USERS More than 300 million MARCH 2007 Twitter is featured at the South by Southwest festival greatly increasing its popularity AUGUST 2007 The hashtag appears on Twitter for the first time JANUARY 2013 Twitter launches the video service Vine
Meet the Founders JACK DORSEY was born in Saint Louis Missouri on November 19 1976 Dorsey attended college in Missouri and then New York He then moved to California to work in technology EVAN WILLIAMS was born on March 31 1972 He grew up on a farm in Nebraska He attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln But Williams left college to start working He moved to California and created a software company called Pyra Labs CHRISTOPHER BIZ STONE was born on March 10 1974 in Boston Massachusetts He attended college in Massachusetts before leaving school to work at technology companies in California Jack Dorsey Christopher Biz Stone Evan Williams
CHAPTER 1 What Is Twitter Tou're at a baseball game watching your favorite team win Suddenly a foul ball flies toward you You catch it You want to share your excitement with all your friends So you quickly log on to Twitter and send out a tweet Instantly your friends and followers learn about your awesome experience That's the magic of Twitter Twitter is a social networking service that allows users to post messages called tweets Tweets are meant to be short They cannot be longer than 140 characters Many users find short messages to be less overwhelming than the long posts Twitter is a website and an app Many people tweet using the app on their smartphones and tablets
Twitter messages often describe how users feel or what they are doing at one exact moment on other social media sites Users can also include photos videos or links with their tweets Twitter users see others tweets by visiting their profiles They can also follow one another to receive tweets in a feed Users communicate back and forth on Twitter and share others tweets In this way a Twitter message can go viral It can be seen by thousands or even millions of people in seconds
