What started as a confusing project 5 years ago has become one of the best ways to share and find information on the Internet. Twitter has been created in March 2006, and launched in July 2006 by a man named Jack Dorsey. This 34 years old man previously worked as a flower artist and masseur, nowadays he is creator, co-founder and chariman of Twitter and CEO of Square. Last Monday Twitter celebrated its 5th anniversary.
In September 2010, Twitter had 175 million registered users, 95 million tweets per day and handling over 800,000 search queries per day. On the 6th of July the fist Dutch person signed up on Twitter. In July 2010, Twitter had 191.000 Dutch users, on Februari 18 2011 this number has increased up to 418.621 Dutch users.
The popularity of Twitter especially becomes visible during events like ‘superbowl’. On particular moments during this event, the number of Tweets per second was 4.000. New Year’s Eve, on the stroke of 12 o'clock, Japan was a record-breaker with 6.000 tweets per second.
In spite of Twitter runs at a loss, the value of Twitter is estimated at 4,5 miljard dollar (2,9 miljard euro).
I started using Twitter 1,5 years ago, at that time most of my friends weren’t using it. The reason I signed up was to follow politicians and the news. Nowadays most of my friends signed up.
For me, Twitter is a great medium to increase the number of visitors of my blogs, thanks to Google Analytics I know that most of you find me through Twitter.
Most debated topics 2010:
1. Gulf Oil Spill
2. FIFA World Cup
3. Inception
4. Haiti Earthquake
5. Vuvuzela
6. Apple iPad
7. Google Android
8. Justin Bieber
9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
10. Pulpo Paul
Nice video about Twitter in plain English:
Sources: NRC Next, Twitter and Youtube
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