7 Twitter Achievements You Should Know On Its Birthday
Happy Birthday Twitter. The blue bird turns 7 today as it celebrates over 200 million users of Twitter and over 400 million tweets per day! Here, we've compiled the highlights and what Twitter has changed the world since the first ever tweet on 21st March 2006. Did you also know Twitter was first called Twttr?
By shaunzsee — 22 Mar 2013, 01:09 PM — Updated about 11 years ago
2013: 231,500 tweets per minute?
The tweet heard round the world when the power went out at the Super Bowl this year — Oreo's "Power out? No problem. You can still dunk in the dark"
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A half-hour power cut in the third quarter was the most tweeted moment of the 2013 Super Bowl, and it took just four minutes of darkness for the first promoted tweets to appear on Twitter.
ibtimes.co.uk2012: Barack Obama '4 more years' most retweeted tweet
Twitter was used from the deepest part of the world's oceans in May 2012, when film director James Cameron tweeted from the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
ibtimes.co.ukBarack Obama has celebrated winning another term as US president by tweeting a photograph of himself hugging his wife, Michelle – which almost immediately became the most popular tweet of all time.
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2011: Twitter was used as a news platform
Did social media like Twitter cause the revolution? No. But these tools did speed up the process by helping to transmit their message to the world and galvanize international support.
The first refers to the unrest in Egypt during the spring of 2011 while the second references a comment made by actor Charlie Sheen, following his sacking from a hit US comedy.
Where journalists and television crews were not allowed, citizens took broadcasting into their own hands, filing messages, photos and video to the rest of the world with Twitter.
2010: First tweet from space
Twitter has since been used extensively by the Curiosity Rover, which tweets updates, images and video from the surface of Mars to more than 1.4 million followers.
On 21 January, 2010 Timothy Creamer became the first person to send a tweet from space, having successfully established internet access to the International Space Station.
2009: Twitter reaches its 1 billionth tweet!
When Oprah first joined Twitter back in 2009. She was a excited, to say the least. Former NBA star Shaquille O'Neil pointed this out to her.
When US Airlines flight 1549 was ditched into the Hudson River in New York, the very first image of it floating in one piece with its passengers standing on the wings was published on Twitter.
2008: Trending topics was implemented
The company experienced rapid growth. It had 400,000 tweets posted per quarter in 2007. This grew to 100 million tweets posted per quarter in 2008
2007: The first hashtag and retweet
The pioneer might have been Eric Rice (@spin), who first used the term ‘retweet’ back on April 18, 2007.
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2006: Twitter was actually Twttr!
In seven short years, Twitter has evolved from a place where people simply share random thoughts to the first place people go for breaking news and events (In picture: First ever tweet)
Twttr was born March 21, 2006, to Jack Dorsey, who, presumably after he realized "Twttr" is impossible to pronounce, later added a few vowels.
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