History of Twitter is Phenomenal

Twitter is a website owned and operated by Twitter Inc., Which offers a social networking microblog that allows users to send and read messages called Twitter (tweets). Twitter is a written text to 140 characters displayed on the user profile page. Chirp can be seen outside, but the sender can restrict delivery of messages to their friends list only. Users can view the chirp of other writers, known as followers.

All users can send and receive Twitter via Twitter site, which is compatible external applications (mobile phones), or with short messages (SMS) is available in certain countries. The site is based in San Bruno, California near San Francisco, where the site was first created. Twitter also has a server and an office in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.

Since established in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users. It is sometimes described as "SMS of the internet".

History 
Twitter started with a discussion held by members of the board of podcasting company Odeo. During the meeting, Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of ​​twitter where individuals can use the SMS service to communicate with a small group. This project began on 21 publicly on July 15, 2006. Twitter became the company's own in April 2007.

Twitter popularity began to rise in 2007 when there were festivals South by Southwest (SXSW). During the event took place, use Twitter to increase from 20,000 to 60,000 per day chirp. The reaction was very positive at the festival.

On 14 September 2010, replacing the Twitter logo and launching a new design.

Growth 
Already over 400,000 chirp sent-performing (post) per quarter in 2007. Then developed menjad 100 million chirp-featured sent per quarter in 2008. At the end of 2009, 2 billion per quarter-featured Twitter has been sent. In the first quarter of 2010, 4 billion chirp sent-appear. In February 2010 Twitter users send 50 million per day. In June 2010, approximately 65 million chirp-featured sent every day, equivalent to about 750 chirp sent every second, according to Twitter.

Twitter users will become more active when there is a notable event. For example, the record was created in the 2010 World Cup, when a fan wrote in 2940 of a second chirp in the second period after Japan scored 30 goals against Cameroon on June 14, 2010. 3085 record was broken again when the chirp per second sent-appear after the victory at the Los Angeles Lakers 2010 NBA Finals on June 17, 2010. This also happens when the singer Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, server down because of Twitter users update their status to include the words "Michael Jackson" on the chirp rate per 100 000 hours.

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