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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
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]
According to Twitter's year-end review, it was the third most-liked tweet of 2021. [19] After Twitter rebranded into X in July 2023, the original Tweet author changed to the new, rebranded account. [32] 11 I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means [33] Elon Musk @elonmusk 3.0 April 25, 2022
The company experienced rapid initial growth. In 2009, Twitter won the "Breakout of the Year" Webby Award. [21] [22] On November 29, 2009, Twitter was named the Word of the Year by the Global Language Monitor, declaring it "a new form of social interaction". [23] In February 2010, Twitter users were sending 50 million tweets per day. [24]
In addition to the Home tab, the Connect and Discover tabs are introduced along with a redesigned profile and timeline of Tweets. [59] 2012 Launch, Milestone Facebook goes public, negotiating a share price of $38 apiece, valuing the company at $104 billion, the largest valuation to date for a newly listed public company. [60] 2012 Launch
The following table lists the top 30 most-retweeted posts on X/Twitter, the account that posted or tweeted it, the total number of retweets or reposts rounded down to the nearest hundred thousand, and the date it was originally posted. Posts that have an identical number of reposts are listed in date order with the most recent post ranked highest.
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Year Date Event 100 BCE: Birth of Charaka, [24] ancient Indian physician who writes the Charaka Samhita, an ancient text that describes theories on human body, etiology, symptomology and therapeutics for a wide range of diseases and is based on the Agnivesha SamhitÄ. 65 BCE: The Pandyan king sends ambassadors to the Greek and Roman lands. 58 BCE