THESTAR.COM Twitter is now six years away from that first 140 characters-or-less tweet from co-founder Jack Dorsey: “Just setting up my twttr.” Back then the company had just 5 employees exactly six years ago yesterday. Now there are more than 800 and they aim to have 1,000 by the end of the year. It took three years, two months and one day to reach a billion tweets on the site. In 2011, 60 billion tweets were sent out. They have more than 100 million users right now (though Facebook has more than 800 million). The social network has wormed its way into mainstream society, and mainstream media.
Jack Layton made his infamous reference to “Hashtag Fail” during one of the election debates. People no longer just watch live television, they participate online, tweeting up storms during the Grammy’s and the Superbowl. It’s taken us to the final frontier, with the first tweet from space. It took us into an operating room, as surgeons live-tweeted an open-heart surgery. It allowed one man to inadvertently live-blog the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. It even became a symbol of a new generation, along with Facebook during the Arab Spring uprising.
Jack Layton made his infamous reference to “Hashtag Fail” during one of the election debates. People no longer just watch live television, they participate online, tweeting up storms during the Grammy’s and the Superbowl. It’s taken us to the final frontier, with the first tweet from space. It took us into an operating room, as surgeons live-tweeted an open-heart surgery. It allowed one man to inadvertently live-blog the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. It even became a symbol of a new generation, along with Facebook during the Arab Spring uprising.
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