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Twitter

Type	Private
Founded	San Francisco, California, United States
Founder	Jack Dorsey Noah Glass Evan Williams Biz Stone
Headquarters	795 Folsom Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States[1]
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jack Dorsey (Executive Chairman) Dick Costolo (CEO) Evan Williams (Director) Biz Stone (Creative director)
Revenue	US $140 million (projected 2010)[2]
Employees	600+ (2011)[3][4]
Website	twitter.com
Alexa rank	9 (July 2011)[5]
Type of site	Mobile social-network service, microblogging
Registration	Required (to post)
Users	200 million (March 2011)[6]
Available in	Multilingual, including Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish
Launched	July 15, 2006[7]
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Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.^[11] The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass,^[12] inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes. The developers initially considered "10958" as a short code, but later changed it to "40404" for "ease of use and memorability".^[13] Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST): "just setting up my twttr".^[14]

"...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. And that's exactly what the product was." – Jack Dorsey^[15]

The first Twitter prototype was used as an internal service for Odeo employees and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006.^[7] In October 2006, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Dorsey, and other members of Odeo formed Obvious Corporation and acquired Odeo and all of its assets–including Odeo.com and Twitter.com–from the investors and shareholders.^[16] Williams fired Glass who was silent about his part in Twitter's startup until 2011.^[17] Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007.^[18]

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Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July of that year. Twitter rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 200 million users as of 2011,^[6] generating over 200 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.^[3][8][9] It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".^[10]
Twitter Inc., the company that operates the service and associated website, is based in San Francisco, California, with additional servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts, and New York, New York.

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