1. Twitter By: Lauren Price

2. History Founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone (@Jack, @Evan, @Biz) Programmers who worked at a podcasting company called Odeo Inc. in San Francisco. Looking for a way to reinvent a dying company & send text on their cell phones in a direct, short message.

3. How Does It Work? 140 characters Followers @ Username Retweet Hash tag (#) trends Direct Message

4. First Tweet On March 21, 2006, @Jack sent the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.” In tweet number 38, Dom Sagolla said “Oh, this is going to be addictive.” From there, a new communication revolution was born.

5. Popularity May of 2011=300 million March of 2012=465 million users 65% increase in 10 months 11 new accounts per second (thenextweb.com)

6. Popularity

7. Most Followers @ladygaga 23,662,862 @justinbieber 21,107,225 @katyperry 18,632,389 @rihanna 18,114,745 @britneyspears 16,126,682

8. Positive Change In Media Used by businesses to communicate with employees and customers. Political messages more diverse and interesting. Worldwide news spreads in seconds

9. Questions? Twitter: @LPrice2