tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54297425334513110622024-09-12T07:13:38.365-07:00Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14376640606753915985noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5429742533451311062.post-3344482883443352452011-08-23T13:07:00.001-07:002011-08-23T13:07:54.655-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /> <div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><b>Twitter</b>&nbsp;is an online&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Social network service">social networking</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Microblogging">microblogging</a>&nbsp;service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_(computing)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Character (computing)">characters</a>, informally known as "tweets."</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">Twitter was created in March 2006 by&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Jack Dorsey">Jack Dorsey</a>&nbsp;and launched in July of that year. Twitter rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 200 million users as of 2011,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_5-1" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup>&nbsp;generating over 200 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_query" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Web search query">search queries</a>&nbsp;per day.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-twitter-blog-august-update_2-1" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#cite_note-twitter-blog-august-update-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#cite_note-7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#cite_note-8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup>&nbsp;It is sometimes described as the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="SMS">SMS</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Internet">Internet</a>."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#cite_note-9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a></sup></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;">Twitter Inc., the company that operates the service and associated website, is based in&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco, California</a>, with additional servers and offices in&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio,_Texas" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="San Antonio, Texas">San Antonio, Texas</a>,&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="New York City">New York, New York</a>.</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14376640606753915985noreply@blogger.com0