Billionaire Elon Musk, known for owning Tesla, has purchased Twitter for 44 billion dollars. As a supporter of free speech, many are eager to see what he does with the platform now that it’s his own private company.
But we aren’t here to debate the future of Twitter, but rather dive into its past. How did this platform become what it is today?
Let’s go…
10 Interesting Facts about Twitter
1. Twitter, Inc. is located in San Francisco, California.
2. There are 25 offices around the world.
3. Originally the platform only allowed users to type 140 characters, that has know been changed to 280 – doubling what it was.
4. It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. It launched in July 2006.
5. The hashtag was first proposed in a Tweet by American blogger Chris Messina. People said they would never catch on, but now hashtags are widely used on Twitter and other social platforms.
6. On July 1, 2011, photo’s could then be attached to Tweets.
7. So far, 1.3 billion accounts have been created.
8. Jack Dorsey sent the very first Tweet on March 21, 2006.
9. Twitter went public in November 2013.
10. When the plane famously landed on the Hudson River in New York City, it was a photo on Twitter that broke the story – not mainstream media.
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