TWITTER, COMMUNICATIONS WITH 280 CHARACTERS

Twitter

Today, The Grandma has been sending some tweets to commemorate the anniversary of Twitter her favourite social net.

The Grandma likes Twitter because it is a good tool for her. It offers her the possibility of knowing the latest news immediately and talking with her friends using short messages of 280 characters as a maximum.

Before sending her tweets, The Grandma has continued studying her Ms. Excel course.

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Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as tweets.

Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled to 280 for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service (SMS) or its mobile-device application software, an app. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around the world.

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July, 15 of that year. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity.

In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.

In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as the SMS of the Internet.

The Ellen selfie,the most retweeted Tweet of all time

As of 2018, Twitter had more than 321 million monthly active users. 

Since 2015 Twitter has been a hotbed of debates and news covering politics of the United States. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Twitter was the largest source of breaking news on the day, with 40 million election-related tweets sent by 10:00 p.m. -Eastern Time- that day.

Twitter's origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student at New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes.

More information: Twitter

The decision was also partly due to the fact that the domain twitter.com was already in use, and it was six months after the launch of twttr that the crew purchased the domain and changed the name of the service to Twitter. The developers initially considered 10958 as a short code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use and memorability. Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST): just setting up my twttr.

The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as an internal service for Odeo employees and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006.

In October 2006, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Dorsey, and other members of Odeo formed Obvious Corporation and acquired Odeo, together with its assets -including Odeo.com and Twitter.com- from the investors and shareholders. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitter's startup until 2011.

The tipping point for Twitter's popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000.

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The first unassisted off-Earth Twitter message was posted from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer on January 22, 2010.

By late November 2010, an average of a dozen updates per day were posted on the astronauts' communal account, @NASA_Astronauts. NASA has also hosted over 25 tweetups, events that provide guests with VIP access to NASA facilities and speakers with the goal of leveraging participants' social networks to further the outreach goals of NASA.

Twitter has become internationally identifiable by its signature bird logo, or the Twitter Bird. The original logo, which was simply the word Twitter, was in use from its launch in March 2006 until September 2010. It was accompanied by an image of a bird which was a piece of clip art created by the British graphic designer Simon Oxley.

More information: Life Wire

A slightly modified version with Larry the Bird next to the old logo succeeded the first style when the website underwent its first redesign. A tweet from an employee that works on the company's platform and API discussed the evolution of the Larry the Bird logo with Twitter's creative director and it was revealed that it was named after Larry Bird of the NBA's Boston Celtics fame. This detail had been confirmed when the Boston Celtics' director of interactive media asked Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about it in August 2011.

In 2012, Twitter unveiled its third logo redesign, replacing Larry the Bird with an updated icon simply named as the Twitter Bird, as seen to the right. As of this logo revision, the word Twitter and the lowercase letter t are no longer used, with the bird becoming the sole symbol for the company's branding. According to Douglas Bowman, designer of Twitter, the new logo resembles a mountain bluebird.

On May 30, 2014, Twitter announced, Starting today, we're rolling out a new font on twitter.com, moving from Helvetica Neue to Gotham.

A word, phrase, or topic that is mentioned at a greater rate than others is said to be a trending topic. Trending topics become popular either through a concerted effort by users or because of an event that prompts people to talk about a specific topic. These topics help Twitter and their users to understand what is happening in the world and what people's opinions are about it.

More information: The Globe and Mail

Twitter has always been that refreshing place

where I can quickly find out what is going on in my tech world.

Brad Feld