TWITTER

TWITTER

http://www.twitter.com

Name: TWITTER
Launched: July 2006
Headquarters: San Francisco
Members: over 300 million

Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo.

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. 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".

The first Twitter prototype was used as an internal service for Odeo employees and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006.Twitter allows users the ability to update their profile by using their mobile phone either by text messaging or by apps released for certain smartphones / tablets.Twitter has been used for a variety of purposes in many different industries and scenarios.