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…
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