22-03-2016 11:06 | modified 22-03-2016 11:23 | Gijsbert Construction
founder Jack Dorsey tweeted on March 21, 2006 at ten to ten in the evening the first message: “Just setting up my twttr “. Twitter was Monday decade.
There are now 320 million active users sending over 500 million messages up to 140 characters together daily. A few more figures on the year: in five years, sales in the microblogging to $ 2.2 billion in 2015; That same year the company suffered yet 520 million loss. In the top five Twitter users with the most followers are three pop stars. At number 1 singer Katy Perry, who has almost 85 million followers. US President Barack Obama and YouTube shine even in the top five.
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In recent years, Twitter proved to be the ideal medium to share news. So the media on January 15, 2009 was all traditional news media in reporting on an emergency landing on the Hudson of a passenger plane. In 2011 it happened something similar. Sohaib Athar did not sleep in Pakistan’s Abbottabad and reported what he heard and saw. It turned out to be the arrest of Osama bin Laden.
The main target of Twitter are businesses. Social media makes money to companies that promote their products and services on Twitter.
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Monday Twitter sent all twitterers an email to thank them. “Every day, millions of people come to live together to talk about the things they care about most. The impact this has had on the world is bigger than we ever dreamed. We want to thank you for our anniversary that you have made Twitter what it is now and that you have given it a direction for the future. On to the next ten years! “
Whether Twitter will exist ten years, is questionable. The image of the microblogging service has become somewhat dusty. The competition has increased considerably. Facebook (1.5 million users per month), Instagram (400 million) and WhatsApp (900 million) are much more popular and still know how to grow, while the number of Twitter users hardly increases.
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