Twitter is a social media website created in March 2006. The original idea for twitter was so a group of friends could keep up to date on each other were doing, similar to texting. The original name for Twitter was twttr but creators Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams changed it so it would be easier and more relatable.
Since 2006 the progression of Twitter has been enormous. Twitter was introduced before the first iPhone was released and Facebook has just started to become popular. In 2007 Twitter had it first major growth spurt with the statistics increase from an average of 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000. Since then it has just increased more and more. In 2013 it was measured that there were over 645,000,000 users and an average of 58,000,000 per day.
Twitter is now in the top 10 most visited sites on the Internet. In 2013 it is estimated that $405,500,00 worth of advertising revenue was raised and it is estimated to be worth over $25 billion dollars.
Since 2006 the progression of Twitter has been enormous. Twitter was introduced before the first iPhone was released and Facebook has just started to become popular. In 2007 Twitter had it first major growth spurt with the statistics increase from an average of 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000. Since then it has just increased more and more. In 2013 it was measured that there were over 645,000,000 users and an average of 58,000,000 per day.
Twitter is now in the top 10 most visited sites on the Internet. In 2013 it is estimated that $405,500,00 worth of advertising revenue was raised and it is estimated to be worth over $25 billion dollars.