http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2011/03/21/n_twitter_05_0321.cnnmoney/
The video link above is a report that cnn conducted about twitter and its progress over the past 5 years.
On March 21, 2007 a mircoblogging site was born. Co-founder, Jack Dorsey wrote the first inital tweet that day. Only 5 years old and twitter has changed how we communicate online.
"Twitter now has 200 million users, including tech luminaries, celebrities and the president of the United States. It started off slowly: In 2007, Twitter averaged just 5,000 tweets per day. "
Polital uprisings and natural disasters around the world has contributed to making social media site a huge communications line. The usage and promotion of Twitter from celebrities (Oprah, Ashton Kutcher, Britney Spears)and even politcal figures (President Obama) has also added to the wild spread of people becoming "Tweeps".
"Twitter currently fields 140 million tweets in a typical day, or more than 1,600 every second."
As of now, Twitter is not profitable. This is the next challenge that the founders and management are looking to accomplish to ensure survival.
My own experience with twitter, just started during this year. I had heard about it about a year ago, but was hestitant to take up yet ANOTHER social media outlet. I just didnt think I had enough time to learn to use it and check on updates everyday. My friend pretty much started setting up my account for me and now I love it! It's how I look up about current events both nationally and globally (on my phone). I can check in with friends I follow and see (much quicker than facebook status updates) what they are doing or thinking about. I use it to look up job opprotunities, follow sports, and express my thoughts and actions during the day. Twitter is also becoming a prominent tool for used marketing research. If your not on Twitter, I encourage you to try it out.
I can't wait to see what how twitter will grow within the next 5 years.
ARTICLE: http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/21/technology/twitter_turns_5/
I just set up my Twitter account yesterday. I felt like I was a little out of the loop being in a Social Media Marketing class and all... It is crazy to see how fast Twitter and social media in general have grown. The most famous and influential people are using Twitter on a daily basis so who wouldn't want to start using these sites! Happy 5th Birthday Twitter:)
ReplyDeleteI think that twitter will become the largest competitor for facebook, eventhough they are completely different i feel like twitter has the advantage because of its simplicity. facebook use to be simple and now its just annoying to me. but great posts and i am still learning how to tweet correctly.
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