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Happy Birthday Twitter! It's three years old today

by Amy Judd | March 21, 2009 at 10:47 am

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The latest social media craze, Twitter, is turning three years old today. According to CEO Jack Dorsey, Twitter turns three at exactly 1:02PM California time.

The social media platform, that allows you to 'tweet' what you are doing in up to 140 characters did not start to get even remotely popular until July 2006, but it was already a few months old by then.

Fast forward to today and you have a startup that survived serious scaling issues and is getting serious mainstream attention. Facebook is obsessed with the young company, as are many others. Happy Birthday, Twttr.

Happy Birthday Twitter!

Do you have a Twitter account? Link to it in the comments if you want to build up your followers!

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cviweblog

at 12:21 on March 21st, 2009

We use this picture to instruct new twitter users on a conference on how to use the created twitterfountain.

cviweblog has contributed a photo to this story.

Roy C

at 12:43 on March 21st, 2009

Tell me, Amy, what are the real advantages of this technology?

This one I actually feel the urge to resist. Others, FaceBook and MySpace, I simply am neutral about.

kelvin zhao (not verified)

at 05:34 on March 22nd, 2009

to Roy:

What you need is just to have a try. you don't need to figure out what's the advantage of it. if it's suit for you, or it's useful to you, you may like it and enjoy it. or just forget it.

jazzyzazzy

at 14:13 on April 19th, 2009

I like to hear of their success,Though I must confess I found this site by chance,and dont really bother or know about such sites as twitter. Twit I may be but no not a twitter, Now public keeps me occupied enough.