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Twitter turns seven, hits new milestone

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 21 Mar 2013 2:05 User comments (2)

Twitter turns seven, hits new milestone Twitter is celebrating its 7th birthday today.
On March 21st, 2006, founder Jack Dorsey tweeted "just setting up my twttr" starting the microblogging revolution.

The video features some of the more important events in the history of the service.

Additionally, Twitter also announced the milestone of hitting 200 million active users, with 400 million tweets being sent daily.




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2 user comments

121.3.2013 14:18

#HappyBirthdayTwitter 🎉🎉🎉🎉

This message has been edited since its posting. Latest edit was made on 21 Mar 2013 @ 2:19

222.3.2013 13:16

I still say twitter is for twits...I'll leave it to the facebook folk...lol

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