Twitter Timeline

Twitter Timeline History Of 140 Characters Success Jack Dorsey drew out the original idea of service and named it stat.us Around 2001 Work on the project was started by publishing the first Twitter message "just setting up my twttr" March 21, 2006 Full version was launched to the public as an internal service for Odeo employees July 15, 2006 Evan Williams, Biz Stone and other Odeo employees started a new company called Obvious Corp October, 2006 Twitter gained a good deal of buzz and received the Web Award at the South by Southwest festival increasing its usage i.e. tweets per day from 20,000 to 60,000 March, 2007 Creator of Blogger Evan Williams became CEO and Dorsey became chairman of the board October 16, 2008 Twitter added a search bar and a sidebar of trending topics to its web interface April 30, 2009 Biz Stone accepted Webby Special Achievement Award for Breakout of the Year June 8, 2009 chirp Twitter crashed at news of Michael Jackson's death after it recorded over 50,000 tweets in just one hour chirp June 25, 2009 chirp chirp The first unassisted off-Earth Twitter message was posted from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer January 22, 2010 Twitter hired Adam Bain, EVP, Product & Technology for Fox Interactive Media, as head of all revenue for the company August, 2010 Twitter integrated its own photo-sharing service and completely new twitter service June 1, 2011 Designed by : Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org http://news.icm.ac.uk http://www.briansolis.com InfoGraphics DESIGN TEAMÜ chirp FEBRUARY 2012