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“Yours to Discover”

https://twitter.com/

Jorge Colon, Twitter, 4/26/2012

About Twitter Twitter is a social

networking site founded by Jack Dorsey in March

of 2006 and launched the site in July of 2006. According to

Twitter, the site is a real-time information

network connecting users

to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and

news.

http://twitter.com/about


TweetsTweets consists

of 140 characters

in which users

use as a form of

expression to

interact with

anyone within the

network.

HA

SH

TA

GS

(#)

Hash tags are used at the

end of a tweet to refer to the

topic that is being discussed.



The “@” symbol

The at symbol

creates a link to your username

and is used to direct a message to a user on the site,

while also notifying them that

their username

was mentioned.

@JLC787

https://twitter.com/#!/


SO HOW DO YOU USE ?


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Active Users 2009-2011

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WHERE DOES TWITTER STAND AGAINST COMPETITORS?

*Measured in millions


On February 5, 2012 in the final minutes of Super Bowl XLVI, a record of 10,245 tweets per

second were recorded.

There are over 100,000 Twitter applications.

Twitter’s original name was twittr inspired by Flickr.

Interesting Facts


W o r k C i t e d

Owyang, Jeremiah. "A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2010." Â« Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang. StudioNashVegas, 2010. Web. 28 Apr. 2012. <http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/01/19/a-collection-of-social-network-stats-for-2010/>.

"Professional Statistics for Your Personal or Business Twitter Account." Twitter Stats. Twitter, 2012. Web. 28 Apr. 2012. <http://twittercounter.com/pages/premium>.

"About." Twitter. Twitter, 2012. Web.

28 Apr. 2012. <http://twitter.com/about>.

Bullas, Jeff. "Social Networking

Watch: News on the Social

Networking and Social Media

Industry." : All Social Networking

Statistics. Courtland Brooks, 24 Apr.

2012. Web. 28 Apr. 2012. <http://www.socialnetworkingwatch.c

om/all_social_networking_statistics/>.

JORGE COLON, TWITTER, 4/26/2012

Thank You!

What are you waiting

for? Start

tweeting!

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