Twitter

Overview:

  • Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks.

    The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo.

    In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage.

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  • sms
  • microblog
  • twttr
  • tweet
  • twitter
  • community
  • social
  • messaging
  • text
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Founded year:
  • 2006
Category code:
  • web
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Name:
  • Twitter
Label:
  • Twitter
Permalink:
  • twitter
Description:
  • Social networking and microblogging
Created at:
  • 2007-06-01T08:42:34Z
Updated at:
  • 2010-06-14T05:34:24Z
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Founded date:
  • 2006-03-21
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  • pr@twitter.com
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  • 3
Founded day:
  • 21
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  • 140
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  • twitter
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