Social networking sites "TWITTER"

 TWITTER

Twitter is a website owned and operated by Twitter Inc.., Which offers a  mikroblog social network that allows users to send and read messages are called tweets. Tweets are text posts to 140 characters are displayed on the user profile pages. Tweets can be seen outside, but the sender can restrict delivery of messages to their friends list only. Users can see the tweets of other writers known as followers.
All users can send and receive tweets via Twitter site, compatible external applications (mobile phones), or with a short message (SMS) available in certain countries. This site is based in San Bruno, California near San Francisco, where the site was first created. Twitter also has a server and an office in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.
Since established in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users. This is sometimes described as "SMS from the internet".

• History

Twitter started with a discussion held by members of the board of podcasting company Odeo. During the meeting, Jack Dorsey introduced the idea twttr where individuals can use the SMS service to communicate with a small group. The project started on March 21, 2006, when the first Twitter message Dorsey published in 21:50 Pacific Standard Time (PST): "I'm just preparing twttr."
Twitter first used as an internal service to employees the full version of Odeo and publicly introduced on July 15, 2006. Twitter became its own company in April 2007.
The popularity of Twitter started to increase in 2007 when there were festivals South by Southwest (SXSW). During the event took place, increased use of Twitter tweets a day from 20,000 to 60,000. Reactions at the festival was very positive.
On September 14, 2010, Twitter change the logo and launched a new design.

• Growth

Already more than 400,000 tweets posted per quarter in 2007. Then developed menjad 100 million tweets posted per quarter in 2008. At the end of 2009, 2 billion per quarter tweets are posted. In the first quarter of 2010, 4 billion tweets are posted. In February 2010 Twitter users send 50 million tweets per day. In June 2010, approximately 65 million tweets are posted every day, equivalent to about 750 tweets are sent every second, according to Twitter.
Twitter users will become more active when there is a notable event. For example, the record created at the 2010 World Cup, when fans write in 2940 tweets per second in the second period 30 after Japan scored a goal against Cameroon on June 14, 2010. Records were broken again when the 3085 tweets per second that are posted after winning the Los Angeles Lakers in NBA Finals 2010 on June 17, 2010. This also happens when the singer Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, the server is down because of Twitter users update their status to include the words "Michael Jackson" on the level of 100 000 tweets per hour.

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