Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks.
The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo.
In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage.
Milestones
- 6/23/08 — Hires Rudy Winnacker and John Adams, two new Operation Engineers 6
- 6/9/08 — Survives iPhone 3G Stevenote 7
- 6/9/08 — Twitter partners with Summize to cover Apple news. 8
- 5/28/08 — Launches a status blog to communicate to users better about issues with the service. 9
- 5/7/08 — Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers 10
- 4/24/08 — VP Lee Mighdoll Leaves Twitter 11
- 4/23/08 — Chief Architect Blaine Cook Leaves Twitter 12
- 4/22/08 — Twitter Japan Launches 13
- 4/16/08 — Twitter helps bust American man out of Egyptian jail 14
- 7/15/06 — Twitter Launches 15
- 3/21/06 — First Twitter 16
General Information
| Website | twitter.com |
| Blog | twitter.com/blog |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| pr@twitter.com | |
| Employees | 29 |
| Founded | 3/06 |
| Description | Social networking and microblogging |
Offices
People
Product Development
Co-founder & Creative Director
Distributed Systems Architect
Engineer
Operations Manager
Senior Operations Engineer
Operations Manager
Operations Engineer
Lead of User Experience Team
Engineer
Board Member
Engineer
Director of Engineering and Ops
Co-Founder, Chairman
Advisor/Investor
Engineer, User Experience Group
Co-Founder, CEO
General Counsel
Chief Scientist
board of directors
Director of Search
Acquisitions
| Values of n, 11/08 1 | |
| Summize, 7/08 2 |
Funding
Competitors
Digg, Pownce, ZYB, Jaiku, Zannel, mocospace, Chatterous, trymehere, Twitturly, TwitterFone, LetsProve, Plurk, Adocu.com, InGameNow, Posterous, Next2Friends, Hictu, kwippy.com, spotengine, Present.ly, Me2day, Xumii, Collecta
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Screenshots
Above: Twitter Home Page July 2009
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Above: Twitter Homepage as of July 28, 2009
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Above: Twitter search results page as of July 28, 2009
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