Happy Birthday Twitter!

Today, July 15 2011, marks the fifth year since Twitter was first opened to the public. It was originally called Twttr inspired by Flickr. The original idea behind Twitter was a SMS driven social network. It was designed to be mainly operated through plain 140 character text messages.

On July 15, 2006 there were 244 tweets sent in the entire day. That is the total that is sent in one tenth of a second today. The website took 16 months to get to 600,000 users. Now that's how many people sign up on an average day.

This was the original blueprint for Twttr  that was drawn by Jack Dorsey.

Twitter Facts

• Twitter was originally called Twttr after Flickr. This was because it was originally designed to be used through cell phone with a 5 digit American SMS short code.
• The first Twitter Message was published by Jack Dorsey. It said, "just setting up my twttr"
• Twitter made not a single dime in profit for the first three years of its operation. 
• Twitter means "a short burst of inconsequential information"
• An average of 150 million tweets are send per day.

 

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