Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
X Logo used since 2023 [a] X homepage visited while logged out in December 2024 Formerly Twitter (2006–2023) Type of site Social networking service Available in Multilingual Founded March 21, 2006 ; 18 years ago (2006-03-21), in San Francisco, California, U.S. Headquarters Bastrop, Texas, United States Area served Worldwide, except blocking countries Owner Odeo (March–October 2006) Obvious ...
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).
Twitter acquired Crashlytics, a crash reporting tool for developers, on January 28, 2013, for over US$100 million, its largest acquisition at the time. [124] Twitter committed to continue supporting and expanding the service. [125] In October 2014, Twitter announced Fabric, a suite of mobile developer tools built around Crashlytics. [126]
Among Obvious Corporation's projects was Twitter, a popular, free social networking and micro-blogging service. Twitter was spun out as a new company in April 2007, with Williams as co-founder, board member, and investor. [17] In October 2008, Williams became CEO of Twitter, succeeding Jack Dorsey, who became chairman of the board. [18]
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.
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 ...
The name Twitter (spelled twttr at the time and using a green site logo [5]) is chosen for the service. The idea for the name is attributed to Noah Glass. [6] [7] 2006: March 21: Creation: Twitter is officially set up and Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet. [8] 2006: July 15: Media coverage
This page was last edited on 26 November 2024, at 14:04 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.