Today marks ten years since Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet.
just setting up my twttr
— jack (@jack) March 21, 2006
Since then, the social network has grown to 300 million monthly active users, and sees an average of 350,000 tweets sent per minute.
https://twitter.com/AnonXaos/status/670490092486705152
Twitter has gone through a series of changes since the first tweet. It started out as a text-based platform, with the 140 character limit designed with SMS in mind.
https://twitter.com/BrainScraps/status/711944017345261568
Since then, it has grown to include photos, embedded media. Then polls were added into the mix, where you can ask people what they think about anything.
https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/647129317303042048
Twitter’s 140 character limit lends itself easily to bite-sized chunks of information. Users can tell the world what they’re doing, eating, listening to or just thinking. Its name is a reflection of this.
The name Twitter came from @Noah Glass & the Oxford English: "a short inconsequential burst of information, chirps from birds." #twttr
— jack (@jack) March 13, 2011
All your tweets, from the deep and insightful to the random and inconsequential have been archived by the Library of Congress.
Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow.
— Library of Congress (@librarycongress) April 14, 2010
Twitter has been used to mobilize people for protest in the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement and in cities all over the world.
Can we get 20,000 people to barricade Wall Street until their demand for real democracy is met? http://bit.ly/re9ENL #occupywallstreet
— Adbusters (@Adbusters) July 14, 2011
In 2013, Twitter launched Vine, an app that taught us that six seconds isn’t too short for a video…
https://vine.co/v/eIXejbQ2utM/
Twitter’s place in the pop culture collective stands out. There was Ellen’s record-breaking selfie…
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@EllenDeGeneres) March 3, 2014
Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking jump…
https://twitter.com/RedBullStratos/status/260066853781643266
And Justin Bieber…
Can you belieb it? @JustinBieber is the most-discussed person on Twitter, with 943 million mentions in 10 years. #LoveTwitter
— Data (@XData) March 21, 2016
Twitter is growing and changing, cementing its place as the social network where we go to get informed, entertained, and occasionally confused…
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/709409643387297792
To commemorate the occasion, Twitter has launched an interactive visualization of some of the most popular tweets.
Explore how iconic Tweets from the past 10 years spread around the world #LoveTwitterhttps://t.co/v1tgHx7w73 pic.twitter.com/Jl6UYhks7V
— Data (@XData) March 21, 2016
Twitter also released a video showcasing various events that brought the social network to the fore.
https://twitter.com/twitter/status/711658625924620288
Here’s to ten more years. And hopefully, an edit button somewhere down the line.
I just emailed Twitter to see if they can add an edit feature so that when u misspell something u don't have to delete & repost Let's see…
— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) July 25, 2015
