For your viewing and redistribution pleasure I give you a beautiful teal timeline of Twitter history:
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This timeline was made using information taken from Wikipedia’s article on Twitter:
2006 – A daylong brainstorming session is held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. While sitting in a park on a children’s slide and eating Mexican food, Jack Dorsey introduces the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. Originally called twttr inspired by Flickr and the five character length of American SMS short codes.
2006 – The developers initially considered “10958″ as an SMS short code, but later changed it to “40404″ for “ease of use and memorability.”
March 21, 2006, 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST) – Jack Dorsey publishes the first Twitter message, “just setting up my twttr.”
July 15, 2006 – After the prototype had gone through testing internally at Odeo twitter is released for public use
October 2006 – Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and other members of Odeo form Obvious Corporation and acquire Odeo and all of its assets–including Odeo.com and Twitter.com from the investors and shareholders.
April 2007 – Twitter becomes it’s own separate and distinct company
March 14th through the 18th, 2007 – Twitter usage increases from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000 at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival
2008 – 100 million tweets are posted per quarter
2009 – Two billion tweets per quarter are being posted.
January 22, 2010 – The first unassisted off-Earth Twitter message is posted from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer
February 2010 – Twitter users are sending 50 million tweets per day
August 2010 – Adam Bain is appointed as President of Revenue
September 14, 2010 – Twitter launches a redesigned site with a new logo
October 4, 2010 – Evan Williams announces that he is stepping down as CEO. Dick Costolo, formerly COO of Twitter, takes over Williams’ position. Williams will stay with the company and “be completely focused on product strategy.”
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