The working name was just "Status" for a while. It actually didn’t have a name. We were trying to name it, and mobile was a big aspect of the product early on ... We liked the SMS aspect, and how you could update from anywhere and receive from anywhere. We wanted to capture that in the name—we wanted to capture that feeling: the physical sensation that you’re buzzing your friend’s pocket. It’s like buzzing all over the world. So we did a bunch of name-storming, and we came up with the word "twitch," because the phone kind of vibrates when it moves. But "twitch" is not a good product name because it doesn’t bring up the right imagery. So we looked in the dictionary for words around it, and we came across the word "twitter," and it was just perfect. The definition was "a short burst of inconsequential information," and "chirps from birds." And that’s exactly what the product was.
Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa's web traffic analysis.[48] Although estimates of the number of daily users vary because the company does not release the number of active accounts, a February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network[49] based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits.[49] In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, Zimbio of 240 percent, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228 percent.[50] However, only 40 percent of Twitter's users are retained.[51]
A number of services similar to Twitter exist, including some which send text messages to multiple people at once. Some services use a concept similar to Twitter's, but add country-specific services or combine the micro-blogging facilities with other services, such as file sharing. Other services provide similar functionality, but are open source.[195] On the other hand, some are within closed networks of corporations, nonprofits, universities, or other organizations
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Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey are the co founders of twitter...........
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The working name was just "Status" for a while. It actually didn’t have a name. We were trying to name it, and mobile was a big aspect of the product early on ... We liked the SMS aspect, and how you could update from anywhere and receive from anywhere.
We wanted to capture that in the name—we wanted to capture that feeling: the physical sensation that you’re buzzing your friend’s pocket. It’s like buzzing all over the world. So we did a bunch of name-storming, and we came up with the word "twitch," because the phone kind of vibrates when it moves. But "twitch" is not a good product name because it doesn’t bring up the right imagery. So we looked in the dictionary for words around it, and we came across the word "twitter," and it was just perfect. The definition was "a short burst of inconsequential information," and "chirps from birds." And that’s exactly what the product was.
—Jack Dorsey[11]
Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa's web traffic analysis.[48] Although estimates of the number of daily users vary because the company does not release the number of active accounts, a February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network[49] based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits.[49] In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, Zimbio of 240 percent, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228 percent.[50] However, only 40 percent of Twitter's users are retained.[51]
A number of services similar to Twitter exist, including some which send text messages to multiple people at once. Some services use a concept similar to Twitter's, but add country-specific services or combine the micro-blogging facilities with other services, such as file sharing. Other services provide similar functionality, but are open source.[195] On the other hand, some are within closed networks of corporations, nonprofits, universities, or other organizations
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