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Twitter launches as a product of parent company Odeo. It grows slowly until March 2007, where usage grows dramatically after it is showcased at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) conference. April 2007 – October 2008: Twitter grows rapidly under CEO Jack Dorsey, completing two funding rounds and launching official support for hashtags.
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 tweets per day. [7] Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, California, and had more than 25 offices around the world. [8]
Jack Dorsey first began to develop his early idea for the social media site Twitter in 2006 while working at early Internet tech company Odeo. Spun off in 2007 and expanding rapidly after that, Twitter became a significant component of global society.
Twitter began as an idea that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey had in 2006. Dorsey had originally imagined Twitter as an SMS-based communications platform. Groups of friends could keep tabs on what each other were doing based on their status updates.
Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk — here's a brief history from the app's founding in 2006 to the present. Nine years ago, Twitter raised $1.8 billion in an IPO. Now the company's fate is ...
How did Twitter start? Twitter started back in early 2006 when Jack Dorsey, a student at NYU, pitched a fresh idea for online chatting to his coworkers at Odeo, a podcasting company. His idea was basically a way for people to share short messages with groups, similar to texting but on the web.
On March 21, 2006 during a hackathon, Jack typed the first ever tweet: "just setting up my twttr." Little did he know those 5 innocuous words would spawn a real-time communication empire. Odeo‘s pivot was complete. With Biz Stone now in the mix, the newly christened Twitter quickly attracted users.