Twitter is a website which is owned and operated by Twitter Incorporated which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called "tweets". Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page.
Actually, the website is based in San Francisco, California. Twitter also has servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.
Twitter first began when it was produced in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July. Since then, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".
Dorsey was the one who introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. The original project code name for the service was "TWTTR", which later become "TWITTER". You can send your location information, your mood information or whatever and share it with people who are on your social-mob! The best part in Twitter is that, no installation necessary! Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM: "just setting up my twttr".
"..we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was a 'chirps from birds'(tweet tweet). And that's exactly what the product was." – Jack Dorsey.
Jack Dorsey, until recently the CEO of Twitter.
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