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5 years Chirika
Happy Birthday, Twitter!
For 5 years, Twitter has become not only one of the most popular social networks of the world, he managed to earn a reputation as an operational media, a revolutionary and the ideal timkiller.
The story of Twitter began in March 2006 as a research project by ODEO (San Francisco), initially for internal use. Jack Dorsie introduced the concept of individual use of an SMS service to communicate with a small group. Initially, the project was conceived as an opportunity to answer the only question: “What are you doing now?”
Dorsie wanted to create a certain platform that would allow him to constantly exchange short messages with friends. Messages on Twitter are immediately displayed on the user page, and instantly can be delivered to other users who are signed to receive them.
The original code name of the project was TWTTR, inspired by the name of the famous Flickr photo hosting and the five -symbol length of the American short SMS codes. Work on the project began on March 21, 2006, when Dorsi published the first Twitter message at 9:50 pm on the standard Pacific time: “Just Setting Up My Twttr.”
- Twitter in facts and numbers -
The length of the message on Twitter is 140 signs.
There are about fifty all kinds of Twitter applications for all possible platforms: from mobile phones to computers, from Windows operating system to Macintosh and Linux.
In July 2009, more than 50 million unique users entered Twitter.com.
Twitter today has more than 400 people. In January 2008 there were only eight.
Twitter is blocked in China.
Twitter was a means of self -organization of people during the revolutionary events in Egypt, Tunisia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan.
The first billion messages appeared on Twitter for three years. Now a billion messages appear every week.
The largest number of tweets per second was recorded 4 seconds after 2011 - 7 thousand tweets per second.
The most popular microblog is the American singer Lady Gaga . Her microblog has already almost 9 million readers.
The first user who scored 1 million followers was the American actor Ashther Kutcher , the husband of Demi Moore. Now the catcher has almost 6.5 million followers, his wife has 3.5 million. But the ex -husband Demi Moore Bruce Willis Twitter still does not have.
In order to gain his first million followers, actor Charlie Shine took only 25 hours.
36% of adolescents check updates on Twitter immediately after sex.
- Glossary -
Twitter is a Russian -language spelling of the name of the service.
Example: have worked a lot for the last two days. There was no time to read LJ and Twitter at all
Twit - a message on Twitter, consisting of 140 signs.
Example: This is my first tweet! Hooray!
Example : I am looking for an apartment in Moscow, a red metro branch, up to 40 thousand rt please!*
Direct - (from the English. Direct - direct) direct message to one user to another, invisible to other users. Used to transmit confidential information (e.g. phone numbers)
Example: colleagues journalists! Does anyone have Volochkova’s direct phone? Throw in directes, pliz.
The hash-tag is a keyword by which messages of different users are formed in general flows. At the beginning of the keyword, a sign sign is placed. For example: #25JAN (real hash-tag used during the revolution in Egypt).
*Example : embroidered with a cross, pricked a finger. #zaplakala
Follover - (from the English. Follower - a follower, a fan) a user who added a twitter of another user to favorites. Analogue "Frend" in "Live magazine".
Example : And President Medvedev has only 200 thousand followers. I thought it would be more.*
Subtole - add the next user to the chosen tape.
*Example : wow, I was packed with @MedvedEvrussia!
Twiterens - (jokel.) Twitter users (often Russian -speaking).
Example: Twitter does not work again. Twiterens on sorrow 
Example : I’m sitting now at a festival in the bar *****. There is a lot of twitter here. I'm afraid of them.