Twitter. 7 Years Young.

 

 

 

Twitter. 7 Years Young.

 

Stat.us? Twttr? Perhaps doesn’t have such a ring to it as the delicate call of a generic, little bird.

 

21^st March 2013 marks the 7^th birthday of Twitter. Born in 2006, a company that boasts 200 million users, with around 400 million ‘tweets’ sent every day. Not bad for an online enterprise that is, essentially, still in it’s adolescence… Or perhaps it’s just grown up really fast!

 

The first few years of its existence were pretty quiet, in terms of a user base, but this significantly rose and tweets were suddenly being calculated both, per-hour and per-minute, from thousands to hundreds of thousands!

 

Twitter has since become a tool, not only for engaging others in pictures of your dinner, but in relating vital and important information out to people who need it. Natural disasters have seen spikes in Twitter usage, with those affected letting loved-ones know that they’re safe. Communication with friends you never see becomes instantaneous and they’re automatically flung in to your life again with updates, pictures and videos of everything you want to share.

 

Unlike, similarly compared company, Facebook, there’s almost a sense of ‘challenge’ in attempting to create meaning with what you do within a short number of words. It disregards any babble you may spout that could easily be transpired across other media, and allows you to really focus on what you need to say.

 

I say “7 years young”… Twitter is younger than:

 

Bebo (2005)

Facebook (2004)

Myspace (2003)

YouTube (2005)

 

Here’s to many more years of Twitter!

 

Now I’m done with the blog, I suppose I should ‘tweet’ it…