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Jack Dorsey began work on Twitter
Originally, Dorsey pitched Twitter as an SMS-based communication platform, where you could post a status about what you were doing. A more public version of "texting". (MacArthur, 2018) -
First Tweet Posted
Dorsey posted the very first Tweet on the 21st March, 2006, at 9:50pm. It said, "just setting up my twtter". (MacArthur, 2018) -
More than 60 thousand Tweets sent in one day
This occurred at the South by Southwest Conference in 2007, and was one of the most pivotal moments in Twitter's history. (MacArthur, 2018) -
Twitter becomes a necessary tool for politicians
In the 2008 US Election, Barack Obama overtook his opponent John McCain after gaining about 20 times more Twitter followers than McCain (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.). -
1300% Increase in Site Visitors
This was an important moment, where founders Dorsey, Williams and Stone realised Twitter's potential (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.). -
Ashton Kutcher becomes the first Twitterer to gain a million followers
Kutcher was in a race with CNN to become the first Twitter user to gain a million followers (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.). -
The first news story went viral on Twitter
Janis Krums tweeted the news that US AIRWAYS Flight 1549 had landed safely on the Hudson River (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.). -
Twitter was used to fundraise
After the Haiti Earthquake, Twitter was used as a way to share the Red Cross fundraiser campaign for the victims. They raised over $8 million (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.). -
Twitter boasts 328 million users!
And still growing (Wolfe, 2018).
