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Twitter is a social networking service that enables the users to send and read short messages up to 140 characters called tweets. It is one of the 10 most visited websites in the world and the website is based in San Francisco, California and also has 25 offices arounds the world. Registered users use Twitter to read and post tweets. Their wall will display the tweets of the people they follow on twitter. Twitter also has its own application for smart phones and Twitter by Short Message Service (SMS) is also available in certain countries. Twitter is also used as an amateur and professional news source. Created in 2006, Twitter now has more than 300 million users and it is also described as the SMS of the internet. Brainchild of the programmers working at the podcasting company Odeo Inc. in San Francisco, Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone. The board members of the Odeo Company had a daylong brainstorming session and during the meeting Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of one person communicating with a small group using an SMS service. They named the project Twttr as it fit the five character length of American SMS as well as it sounded similar to Flickr. Dorsey sent the first Twitter message on 21st March 2006 and the tweet was just setting up my twttr. The first version of Twitter was used only for the Odeo employees. On 15th July 2006 they introduced the complete version for anyone to use. A new company called Obvious Corporation was started by Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Dorsey and other members of Odeo in October 2006 and they bought Odeo and all the property including odeo.com and Twitter.com. in April 2007, Twitter became a separate company. Twitter started gaining popularity in the 2007 South by Southwest festival and during the event, the Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000. The company set up two large computer screens in the hallways of the conference that showed the Twitter messages and people started to tweet as well as look at the tweets done by other people. The panelist as well as speakers talked about Twitter and appreciated it in a positive way. Bloggers like Scott Beale appreciated Twitters effort at the festival and the Twitter staff won the festivals Web Award prize and they said "we'd like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did! The company experienced rapid growth and t had 4,00,000 tweets posted in every quarter of 2007 and this grew up to 100 million tweets posted per quarter in 2008. In February 2010, Twitter users started to send 50 million tweets per day and by March 2010, the company recorded over 70,000 registered applications. As of March 2011, 140 million tweets were sent per day. Twitter experienced high usage during major events. For example, during 2010 FIFA World Cup, fans wrote 2940 tweets per second after Japan Scored against Cameroon on June 14. The record was broken in the 2010 NBA Finals when 3085 tweets per second were posted and then the record was broken when 3283 tweets per second at the Japans victory over Denmark. Twitters servers crashed after users were updating their status to include the words Michael Jackson at a rate of 100,000 tweets per hour after the death of Michael Jackson. Twitter has been identifiable worldwide by its signature bird logo. However, the original logo was the words twitter written in blue and it was in use from its launch in March 2006 until September 2010. A slightly different version was launched after the website underwent its first redesign. On 5th June 2012, Twitter unveiled its third logo redesign with an updated icon named Twitter Bird. As of this logo, the word twitter wasnt used and the bird became the sole symbol of the company.

Twitter Hires Manish Maheshwari as India MD
IANS | April 22, 2019 2:22 PM IST
New Delhi: Twitter India on Monday appointed Manish Maheshwari, former CEO of Network18 Digital, as ...
Twitter Hires Manish Maheshwari as India MD
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IPL 2019: Harry Gurney, Piyush Chawla Drop Catches, Dinesh Karthik's Captaincy During Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Twitter Trolls Poor Fielding | SEE POSTS
India.com Sports Desk | April 21, 2019 7:17 PM IST
IPL 2019: KKR would like to forget the match against SRH as soon as possible. They were outplayed in...
IPL 2019: Harry Gurney, Piyush Chawla Drop Catches, Dinesh Karthik's Captaincy During Sunrisers Hyderabad vs
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Mohammed Amir Snubbed From Pakistan Squad For ICC World Cup 2019, Twitter Trolls Call | SEE POSTS
India.com Sports Desk | April 18, 2019 8:40 PM IST
Pakistan Cricket Board announced a preliminary 15-man squad for the upcoming World Cup and the big n...
Mohammed Amir Snubbed From Pakistan Squad For ICC World Cup 2019, Twitter Trolls Call | SEE POSTS
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Twitter Plans to Launch 'Hide Replies' Feature in Tweets From June
IANS | April 17, 2019 3:26 PM IST
San Francisco: As part of the efforts to make its platform appear less toxic, Twitter is planning to...
Twitter Plans to Launch 'Hide Replies' Feature in Tweets From June
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How Pro-Modi, Anti-Modi Twitter Bots Went Berserk
IANS | April 10, 2019 12:50 PM IST
New Delhi: Two Twitter bots -- one in support of and one in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Mo...
How Pro-Modi, Anti-Modi Twitter Bots Went Berserk
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Twitter Limits Users to Follow Upto 400 Accounts Per Day to Combat Spams
IANS | April 9, 2019 1:59 PM IST
San Francisco: In a bid to combat spam on its platform, Twitter has changed its rules to allow users...
Twitter Limits Users to Follow Upto 400 Accounts Per Day to Combat Spams
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Sikhs Protest, 'Mool Mantar' Clip Deleted From President's Twitter Handle
India.com News Desk | April 4, 2019 12:25 PM IST
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has had to delete a video clip from his social media accounts f...
Sikhs Protest, 'Mool Mantar' Clip Deleted From President's Twitter Handle
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Sushma Swaraj Delivers Prompt Reply to Netizen Who Calls Her 'More Humorous Than Rahul Gandhi'
India.com News Desk | April 3, 2019 4:02 PM IST
New Delhi: Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday delivered a swift reply to a man who compared her sense of hum...
Sushma Swaraj Delivers Prompt Reply to Netizen Who Calls Her 'More Humorous Than Rahul Gandhi'
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Sushma Swaraj Offers Help to Netizen Who Calls Her 'Not a Chowkidar' on Twitter
India.com News Desk | April 1, 2019 10:35 PM IST
New Delhi: A netizen blurted out harsh words for Sushma Swaraj on Twitter, however, the External Aff...
Sushma Swaraj Offers Help to Netizen Who Calls Her 'Not a Chowkidar' on Twitter
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2019-04-01T11:35:42+00:00
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Engaged Celebrities on Twitter to Increase His Visibility And Fulfill Electoral Ambitions: US Study
PTI | March 25, 2019 2:01 PM IST
Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi engaged celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan and Sachin Tendul...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Engaged Celebrities on Twitter to Increase His Visibility And Fulfill Electoral
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Facebook, Instagram Down For Sometime; Many Features Fail to Work in Parts of World
India.com News Desk | March 13, 2019 11:44 PM IST
New Delhi: Facebook and Instagram were partially down in some parts of the world on Wednesday evenin...
Facebook, Instagram Down For Sometime; Many Features Fail to Work in Parts of World
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Twitter Faces Govt's Flak For Failing to Remove Objectionable Content in User Accounts
India.com News Desk | March 13, 2019 9:08 AM IST
New Delhi: The government has warned the top executives of Twitter of imposing a seven-year imprison...
Twitter Faces Govt's Flak For Failing to Remove Objectionable Content in User Accounts
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Sushma Swaraj Delivers Prompt Reply on Twitter, Says 'Learnt to Follow English of All Accents And Grammar'
India.com News Desk | March 12, 2019 11:09 AM IST
New Delhi: Minsiter of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Monday said that she can understand English...
Sushma Swaraj Delivers Prompt Reply on Twitter, Says 'Learnt to Follow English of All Accents And Grammar'
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Sushma Swaraj Seeks Help on Twitter to Contact Family of Indian Woman Killed In Ethiopian Airline Crash
India.com News Desk | March 11, 2019 1:06 PM IST
New Delhi: Sushma Swaraj on Monday put out an appeal on Twitter for help with contacting the family ...
Sushma Swaraj Seeks Help on Twitter to Contact Family of Indian Woman Killed In Ethiopian Airline Crash
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Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Facebook, Twitter, Google to Monitor Social Media Content, Says Election Commission
India.com News Desk | March 11, 2019 7:02 AM IST
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday evening announced the dates for the Lok Sabha Elec...
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Facebook, Twitter, Google to Monitor Social Media Content, Says Election Commission
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UP: Police, Cyber Cell Get Cracking on Fake Twitter Account of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman
India.com News Desk | March 4, 2019 9:37 AM IST
Varanasi: The fake Twitter account of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthanman has the Azamgarh police i...
UP: Police, Cyber Cell Get Cracking on Fake Twitter Account of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman
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Sonam Kapoor Plagiarises Humans of Hindutva-Post, Gets Brutally Trolled on Twitter For 'Being Senseless in Sensitive Time'
India.com Entertainment Desk | February 28, 2019 2:00 PM IST
Actress Sonam Kapoor is in the spotlight for plagiarising a Humans of Hindutva propaganda post that ...
Sonam Kapoor Plagiarises Humans of Hindutva-Post, Gets Brutally Trolled on Twitter For 'Being Senseless in Se
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2019-02-28T03:00:19+00:00
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CBSE Releases Advisory For Students Asking Them to Stay Vigilant Against Fake News Circulation
India.com Education Desk | February 27, 2019 9:13 PM IST
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday released an advisory for Boa...
CBSE Releases Advisory For Students Asking Them to Stay Vigilant Against Fake News Circulation
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2019-02-27T10:13:04+00:00
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Surgical Strike 2.0: War of Words Erupts on Twitter After India Bombed Pakistani Terror Base in Balakot
Md Hussain Rahmani | February 26, 2019 4:16 PM IST
New Delhi: Twitter and other social media platforms erupted and enthusiasts engaged in a nasty war o...
Surgical Strike 2.0: War of Words Erupts on Twitter After India Bombed Pakistani Terror Base in Balakot
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Facebook Senior Officials to Outline Safety Standards Before Parliamentary Panel on March 6
PTI | February 25, 2019 5:34 PM IST
New Delhi: Senior officials of Facebook will appear on March 6 before a parliamentary panel to outli...
Facebook Senior Officials to Outline Safety Standards Before Parliamentary Panel on March 6
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