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Twitter, Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Founder(s)	Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, Biz Stone
Headquarters	795 Folsom Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States[1]
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Dick Costolo (CEO) Jack Dorsey (Executive Chairman) Evan Williams (Director) Biz Stone (Creative director)
Industry	Internet
Revenue	US$ 140 million (2010 est.)[2]
Employees	600+ (2011)[3][4]
Website	Twitter.com
Alexa rank	9 (March 2012)[5]
Type of site	Social network service, microblogging
Registration	Required (to post, follow or be followed)
Users	Over 350 million (June 2011)[6]
Available in	Multilingual
Launched	July 15, 2006[7]
Current status	Active
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Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011,^[6] generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.^[3][8][9] It has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."^[10]
Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in New York City. 

History

A blueprint sketch, c. 2006, by Jack Dorsey, envisioning an SMS-based social network.

Creation

Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.^[11] The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass,^[12] inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes. The developers initially considered "10958" as a short code, but later changed it to "40404" for "ease of use and memorability."^[13] Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST): "just setting up my twttr".^[14]

"...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. And that's exactly what the product was." – Jack Dorsey^[15]

The first Twitter prototype was used as an internal service for Odeo employees and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006.^[7] In October 2006, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Dorsey, and other members of Odeo formed Obvious Corporation and acquired Odeo and all of its assets – including Odeo.com and Twitter.com – from the investors and shareholders.^[16] Williams fired Glass who was silent about his part in Twitter's startup until 2011.^[17] Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007.<sup>[18]  
   
  

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