History of Twitter

Twitter is a website owned and operated by Twitter Inc.., Which offers a microblogging social network that allows users to send and read messages called chirp (tweets). Chirp is text posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user profile page. The booms can be seen outside, but the sender can restrict message delivery to their friends list only. Users can see other writers chirp known as followers.

All users can send and receive chirp through the Twitter website, compatible external applications (cell phones), or with a short message (SMS) available in certain countries. The site is based in San Bruno, California near San Francisco, where the site was first created. Twitter also has servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.

Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".

History
Twitter began as a discussion held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. During the meeting, Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of ​​twitter where people can use the SMS service to communicate with a small group. The project began on 21 publicly on July 15, 2006. Twitter became its own company in April 2007.

Twitter popularity began to increase in 2007 when there were festival South by Southwest (SXSW). During the event took place, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 per day to 60,000 chirp. Reaction at the festival was very positive. On 14 September 2010, Twitter change the logo and launched a new design.

Development
've Shipped over 400,000 chirp-performing (post) per quarter in 2007. Then develop into a 100 million-performing chirp shipped per quarter in 2008. At the end of 2009, 2 billion per quarter has been sent chirp-appear. In the first quarter of 2010, 4 billion chirp is sent-appear. In February 2010 Twitter users send 50 million per day. In June 2010, about 65 million were shipped chirp-perform every day, the equivalent of about 750 chirp is sent each second, according to Twitter.

Twitter users will be more active when there is a prominent event. For example, the record was created in the 2010 World Cup, when fans wrote in 2940 chirp per second at 30 second period after Japan scored against Cameroon on June 14, 2010. The record was broken again when 3085 chirp per second sent-appear after the victory of the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA Finals on June 17, 2010. This also happens when singer Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, Twitter servers down due to users updating their status to include the words "Michael Jackson" at a rate of 100,000 per hour chirp.