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Technology: From 2006 to 2016
- Updated: July 15, 2016
Since it’s appearance into a online world, Twitter has turn a pushing force in mass media, politics, day-to-day life and occurances and only about anything and all function around a world. On a 10th anniversary of a launch, we demeanour during some extraordinary Twitter sum and annals achieved over a years…
1.6 billion: The series of hunt queries rubbed by Twitter
100 million: The series of Twitter users in 2012
340 million: The series of tweets posted per day in 2012
500 million: The series of Twitter users as of 2015
302 million: The series of active Twitter users in 2015
35.6 million: The series of tweets a 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final between Brazil and Germany on Jul 8, 2014
Robert Downey Jr. Pic/AFP
23 hours and 22 minutes: The fastest gait to a million supporters set by Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr in Apr 2014, according to a Guinness World Records.
14: The oldest Twitter accounts, that became active on Mar 21, 2006, all belonging to Twitter employees during a time and including founders @jack (Jack Dorsey), @biz (Biz Stone), and @noah (Noah Glass)
A still from ‘Castle in a Sky’. Pic/YouTube
143,199: The sum series of tweets during a airing of Castle in a Sky on Aug 2, 2013, when fans tweeted a word “balse” during a accurate time that it played in a movie. It was a many tweeted impulse in a story of Twitter.
3: The series of countries where Twitter is criminialized altogether. They are Iran, China and North Korea.
3.4 million: The series of times 86th Academy Awards horde Ellen DeGeneres’ selfie with Oscar-winning Hollywood actors has been retweeted as of 18 Mar 2014. The iconic selfie containing 12 celebrities taken on Mar 2, 2014 pennyless a prior retweet record within forty minutes, and was retweeted over 1.8 million times in a initial hour. It was retweeted over 2 million times after a ceremony; reduction than 24 hours later, it had been retweeted over 2.8 million times. It kick a prior record, 778,801, that was hold by Barack Obama, following his feat in a 2012 presidential election. The occurrence was parodied by Lego and The Simpsons. Twitter was close down for some-more than 20 mins due to this.
Ellen Degeneres’ record-breaking Oscar selfie (below) The satire on ‘The Simpsons’. Picture pleasantness @The Simpsons Facebook account
USD 300 million: The volume invested on Twitter by Saudi king Alwaleed bin Talal in Dec 2011. The association was valued during $8.4 billion during a time.
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100,000: The series of tweets posted per hour following song fable Michael Jackson’s genocide on Jun 25, 2009. Twitter servers crashed after users were updating their standing to embody a difference “Michael Jackson”.
153: The series of countries represented during a United Nations with establishe supervision Twitter accounts in 2013.
505: The volume of Twitter handles used by universe leaders and their unfamiliar ministers, with their tweets means to strech a total assembly of over 106 million supporters in 2013.
140 million: The series of Twitter users announced on Mar 21, 2012, to coincide with a website’s sixth birthday. The series of users is adult 40% from their Sep 2011 number, that was pronounced to have been during 100 million during a time.
Tech rewind: How Twitter came to be
Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Christopher Isaac “Biz” Stone and Evan Williams. Co-founder Noah Glass has been credited for a name ‘Twitter’, that was primarily ‘twttr’ during a plan growth stage. The initial thought of an particular regulating an SMS use to promulgate with a tiny organisation was due by Jack Dorsey. The reason for regulating an shortened name for a plan was due to a domain ‘twitter.com’ being taken during a time.
Work on a plan strictly commenced on Mar 21, 2006. Jack Dorseypublished a initial Twitter summary during 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST): “just environment adult my twttr”.
(Clockwise from left) Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Noah Glass. Pic/YouTube
Twitter was primarily used as an inner use for employees of a podcasting organisation Odeo of that co-founders Noah Glass and Evan Williams were owners. The developers primarily deliberate “10958” as a brief code, though after altered it to “40404” for “ease of use and memorability.”
Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Dorsey, and other members of Odeo, shaped Obvious Corporation in Oct 2006 and acquired Odeo, together with a assets, that enclosed Odeo.com and Twitter.com. Noah Glass was dismissed by Evan Williams following this and would sojourn wordless about his partial in Twitter’s startup until an talk in 2011. In a book, Hatching Twitter, author Nick Bilton, Glass is given credit for carrying helped comprehend a idea, and conceptualizing some of a core features. By Apr 2007, Twitter spun off into a possess company.
Twitter use increasing from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000 during 2007 South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference. This is deliberate a tipping indicate for a microblogging site’s popularity. According to mediapersons who lonesome a event, Twitter messages were exclusively streamed on dual deftly placed60-inch plasma screens in a discussion hallways, that enabled hundreds of conference-goers kept tabs on any other around consistent twitters. Panelists and speakers mentioned a service, and a bloggers in assemblage touted it.
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NASA wanderer T. J. Creamer posted a initial unassisted off-Earth Twitter summary on Jan 22, 2010. By late November, an normal of a dozen updates per day were posted on a astronauts’ community account, @NASA_Astronauts.
Twitter and universe leaders
US Ambassador to Russia, Michael A. McFaul used Twitter after apropos envoy in 2011, posting in English and Russian. He is deliberate a colonize of general Twitter diplomacy.
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Queen Elizabeth II sent her initial twitter to symbol a opening of a London Science Museum’s Information Age muster on Oct 24, 2014. (Read more)