Twitter.com Info what is Twitter ?

What is Twitter.com ? Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. Twitter rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 200 million users as of 2011, generating over 200 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.It is sometimes described as "the SMS of the Internet."

Twitter Inc., the company that operates the service and associated website, is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in San Antonio, Boston, and New York City.

Founded : San Francisco, California, United States

Founder: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, Biz Stone

Headquarters: 795 Folsom Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States

Area served: Worldwide

Key people: Jack Dorsey (Executive Chairman), Dick Costolo(CEO), Evan Williams (Director), Biz Stone (Creative director)

Revenue: US $140 million (projected 2010)

Employees: 600+ (2011)

Website: twitter.com

Alexa rank: 9 (November 2011)

Type of site: Mobile social-network service, microblogging

Registration :    Required (to post, follow or be followed)

Users:     200 million (March 2011)

Available in Multilingual, including Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog and Malay.

Launched: July 15, 2006

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
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