Twitter Celebrates a Decade of Tweets

It might seem like Twitter has been around forever, simply it was but 10 years ago—on March 21, 2006— that Jack Dorsey posted the get-go message to the service.

"But setting up my twttr," the company founder wrote.

10 years afterwards, Twitter is celebrating a decade of tweets—including Dorsey's first, which has been shared more than 76,550 times and liked by 55,330-plus users.

"As we mark this milestone, it's you we want to celebrate," the company said in a blog post.

"Throughout the years, you've fabricated Twitter what information technology is today and you lot're shaping what it volition be in the hereafter," the message connected. "Give thanks you for making history, driving change, lifting each other upward and laughing together every twenty-four hour period."

The abstraction of Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, Twitter was built as an SMS shortcode for the Web: A place to mail service real-time, up-to-date news, goings on, and thoughts.

Initially mocked by Luddites, Twitter rapidly found its footing—particularly amidst entertainment and news junkies.

When a US Airways flight fabricated an emergency landing in the Hudson River in Jan 2009, a tweeted photo was the first from the scene. Later that year, Ashton Kutcher became the outset person to reach 1 million followers, beating CNN's Breaking News feed. He now has 17.5 meg, while CNN sits at 36 million.

By 2022, the company had more than than 100 one thousand thousand users posting 340 million messages a day, including President Obama's massively popular "Four more than years" tweet. The social network currently boasts 320 one thousand thousand monthly active users, who tin show their appreciation for the service today with the #LoveTwitter hashtag.

Twitter went public in 2022, merely has faced challenges in contempo years, as growth stalled and the business firm saw a revolving door of CEOs earlier landing on Dorsey last fall. It's at present experimenting with new products like Twitter Moments and an algorithmic timeline. One thing that won't change: Twitter'due south 140-grapheme limit.