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Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. [8] Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, California, and had more than 25 offices around the world. [9]
Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) [3] is an American Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and programmer, who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc. from 2015 until 2021, as well as co-founder, principal executive officer and chairman of Block, Inc. (developer of the Square financial services platform).
Revue was founded in the Netherlands in 2015 and acquired by Twitter on January 26, 2021. [132] On December 14, 2022, Twitter announced the service would be discontinued on January 18, 2023, at which point all user data would be deleted.
Evan Clark "Ev" Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American billionaire technology entrepreneur. [1] He is a co-founder of Twitter, and was its CEO from 2008 to 2010, and a member of its board from 2007 to 2019. [2]
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, in 2009. Twitter's usage spikes during prominent events. For example, a record was set during the 2010 FIFA World Cup when fans wrote 2,940 tweets per second in the thirty-second period after Japan scored against Cameroon on June 14, 2010.
Noah Glass is an American technology entrepreneur and software developer, whose early work included launching Twitter and Odeo, a podcasting company that closed in 2017. [1] [2] Glass is credited for coining the name "Twitter", which began as "Twttr". [3] [4]
Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone [1] [2] (born March 10, 1974) [3] is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of Twitter, among other technology companies. Stone was the creative director at Xanga from 1999 to 2001. [4] Stone co-founded Jelly, with Ben Finkel. Jelly was launched in 2014 and was a search engine driven by visual imagery and ...
Twitter announces a new suite of anti-harassment tools and promises faster response times for abuse complaints. [86] 2015: January 20: Acquisition: Twitter acquires India-based mobile marketing startup ZipDial. [87] [88] 2015: January 21: Product: Twitter officially launches its "While You Were Away" feature. [89] 2015: January 27: Product