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‘twitter’ ‘twitter’ A Project by- Noorin Shaikh
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Introduction: On March 21, 2006, @Jack sent the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.” And thus a communications revolution was born, one renown for brevity and bad spelling. Dom Sagolla (@Dom), in tweet 38, typed these prescient words: “Oh, this is going to be addictive.”
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The Founder: Jack Dorsey Born in: 19 th November 1976. American software architect and businessman widely known as the creator of ‘twitter’ and CEO of square, mobile payments company.
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In 2008,he was named as MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
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The Name The name Twitter was inspired by Flickr, a photo-sharing service. Other names considered: FriendStalker and Dodgeball. The dictionary definition of twitter is “a short burst of inconsequential information.”
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A perfect name, said @Jack because “that’s exactly what the product was.”
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Twitter today Almost 200 million users worldwide. About 460,000 new Twitter accounts are opened daily. More than 140 million tweets are sent daily. That’s one billion weekly.
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In 2008, Twitter had eight employees; today it has more than 400. And they’re hiring (twitter.com/jobs)
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How twitter makes Money? Twitter lists its revenues at a modest $150- million annually. It is a private company so the sources of revenue are unclear. Twitter also licenses its stream of tweets to Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. There are constant rumours that Twitter will be purchases by Facebook or Google. It could also go public like LinkedIn.
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Twitter is said to be worth more than $4.5-billion. The value comes from its potential to exploit its base of hundreds of millions of users. Twitter could sell traditional ads (not likely) and to start charging for premium accounts that push business to their sites (very likely).
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Changed The Media Twitter also licenses its stream of tweets to Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. There are constant rumours that Twitter will be purchases by Facebook or Google. It could also go public like LinkedIn.
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Twitter is said to be worth more than $4.5-billion. The value comes from its potential to exploit its base of hundreds of millions of users. Twitter could sell traditional ads (not likely) and to start charging for premium accounts that push business to their sites (very likely).
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Changed Politics Social media and microblogging like Twitter has changed political communication profoundly. Political messages used to be controlled by a handful of powerful gatekeepers. Now the messengers, and hence the messages, are more diffuse and diverse. In Canada, Industry Minister Tony Clement is one of the most prolific and popular Twitterers.
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Changed the business Beyond its social function, Twitter is used increasingly by business to communicate with employees and customers. The one-way transmission of information is morphing quickly into two-way interaction. Business can communicate real-time message to the customers they want to reach.
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