Happy 6th Birthday Twitter!
Six years ago today, the first ever tweet was sent by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. And today, there are over 500 million registered users sending more than a billion tweets a week. You’ve come a long way, baby!
The tweet below contains the first, fateful words ever typed into Twitter. Dorsey was with fellow co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams tweeting to each other and a small group of family friends during those first few weeks, getting the service up and running.
just setting up my twttr
— Jack Dorsey (@jack) March 21, 2006
Six years ago, Twitter (which was known as Twttr back then) was meant to be a mobile phone-based service, which is why each tweet is only 140 characters, plus 20 characters for the username of the sender – 160 is the length of a SMS or text message.
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