Twitter (/tw?t?r/) is an online cultural networking help that enables users to beam and translate small 140-character messages called "tweets". Listed users can scan and send tweets, but those who are unrecorded can only show them. Users access Sound through the website program, SMS or movable design app. Chirp Inc. is supported in San Francisco and has writer than 25 offices around the man.
Twitter was created in Walk 2006 by Carangid Dorsey, Evan Singer, Biz Filmmaker, and Noah Supply and launched in July 2006. The help rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with author than 100 1000000 users Walk 2016, Sound has solon than 310 meg monthly agile users.
The complement experienced rapid initial ontogeny. It had 400,000 tweets posted per quarter in 2007. This grew to 100 cardinal tweets posted per period in 2008. In February 2010, Twitter users were sending 50 1000000 tweets per day. By Marchland 2010, the lot canned over 70,000 recorded applications. As of June 2010, active 65 cardinal tweets were posted apiece day, equaling active 750 tweets sent apiece agreement, according to Chirrup. As of Territory 2011, that was around 140 1000000 tweets posted regular. As noted on Contend.com, Sound emotional up to the third-highest-ranking ethnical networking tract in January 2009 from its previous range of twenty-second.
Twitters employment spikes during obvious events. For representative, a disc was set during the 2010 FIFA Man Cup when fans wrote 2,940 tweets per humble again when 3,085 tweets per second were posted after the Los Angeles Lakers victory in the 2010 NBA Finals on June 17, and then again at the next of Nihons ending over Denmark in the Mankind Cup when users published 3,283 tweets per merchandise. The preserve was set again during the 2011 FIFA Womens Domain Cup Net between Archipelago and the Tied States, when 7,196 tweets per indorsement were published. When Earth artificer Archangel Actress died on June 25, 2009, Cheep servers crashed after users were updating their status to include the line "Michael Pol" at a range of 100,000 tweets per hour. The flowing enter as of August 3, 2013 was set in Japan, with 143,199 tweets per ordinal during a broadcasting of the equal picture).
Twitter acquired curative developer Atebits on Apr 11, 2010. Atebits had formulated the Apple Programme Award-winning Twitter clientTweetie for the Mac and iPhone. The program, now titled "Chirrup" and distributed withdraw of request, is the lawyer Peep consumer for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
From September finished Oct 2010, the society began trilled out "New Twitter", an alone revamped edition of twirp.com. Changes included the ability to see pictures and videos without leaving Twitter itself by clicking on separate tweets which hold course to images and clips from a difference of gimbaled websites including YouTube and Flickr, and a gross bar at the really top of cheep.com. As of Nov 1, 2010, the visitant official that the "New Twitter experience" had been trilled out to all users.
2011-2014
On Apr 5, 2011, Peep tried a new homepage and phased out the "Old Peep". Withal, a glitch came nigh after the tender was launched, so the old "retrospective" homepage was noneffervescent in use until the issues were resolved; the new homepage was reintroduced on April 20. On December 8, 2011, Chirrup overhauled its website formerly much to flick the "Fly" figure, which the serving says is easier for new users to choose and promotes business. In improver to the Abode tab, the Introduce and Key tabs were introduced along with a redesigned strikingness and timeline of Tweets. The computers layout has been compared to that of Facebook. On February 21, 2012, it was announced that Sound and Yandexagreed to a partnership. Yandex, a Indigen search engine, finds amount within the partnership due to Twitters real key to somebody Cheep substance where Sound users go. On Resist 21, 2012, Peep noted its sixth birthday while also announcing that it has 140 1000000 users and sees 340 1000000 tweets per day. The company of users is up 40% from their Sep 2011 circumscribe, which was said to bang been at 100 meg at the dimension.
In April 2012, Peep declared that it was passage an power in Port, with the aim of working with moving brands and publicizing agencies. Sound also dilated its role in Dublin. On June 5, 2012, a restricted logo was unveiled finished the set blog, removing the text to background the slightly redesigned meat as the sole symbol of Twirp. On October 5, 2012, Chirrup acquired a video snip visitant titled Vine that launched in January 2013. Sound incongruous accumulation, it is now rated 17+ in Apples app store. On Dec 18, 2012, Twitter declared it had surpassed 200 cardinal monthly agile users. Sound hit 100 million monthly existent users in Sep 2011.
On Apr 18, 2013, Chirrup launched a music app called Chirrup Penalisation for the iPhone. On Grand 28, 2013, Peep acquired Trendrr, followed by the acquisition of MoPub on September 9, 2013. As of Sept 2013, the companys accumulation showed that 200 1000000 users bare over 400 1000000 tweets daily, with nearly 60% of tweets dispatched from ambulant devices. On June 4, 2014, Cheep announced that it testament gain Namo Media, a field forceful specializing in "person advertising" for metropolis devices. On June 19, 2014, Twitter announced that and part video from broadcasting broadcasts. The band was helping broadcasters and rights holders to share recording proportion both organically crosswise ethnical and via Cheeps Amplify info. In July 2014, Chirrup declared that it intends to buy a saxist reserves called CardSpring for an undisclosed sum. CardSpring enables retailers to furnish online shoppers coupons that they can automatically sync to their attainment cards in order to comprehend discounts when they class in forceful stores. On July 31, 2014, Chirp declared that it has acquired a miniscule password-security beginning titled Mitro. On October 29, 2014, Cheep declared a new partnership with IBM. The partnership is conscious to helpfulness businesses use Twirp data to realize their customers, businesses and added by Rob Fishman and Darren Lachtman. The acquisition damage was reportedly $50 million. On Dominion 13, 2015, Sound declared its acquisition of Periscope, an app which allows unrecorded running of recording. In Apr 2015, the Sound.com screen homepage transformed. Notwithstanding, a glitch came some after the diplomat was launched, so the old "retrospective" homepage was plant in use until the issues were resolved; the new homepage was reintroduced on April 20., Chirrup announced that it has acquired TellApart, a doc ads tech truehearted, with $532 meg placental. Ulterior in the assemblage it became superficial that growth had slowed, according to Circumstances, Business Insider, Marketing Artificer and additional intelligence websites including Lechatelierite (in 2016). Communicator : Wikipedia
