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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 Rolls Out Live Scorecard, Testing Community 'Cricket Twitter' for Indian Fans
India.com News Desk | October 21, 2021 5:54 PM IST
Currently, the company is testing its first Community outside of the US dedicated to Indian cricket
Twitter Rolls Out Live Scorecard, Testing Community 'Cricket Twitter' for Indian Fans
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Donald Trump Announces Plans To Launch Own Social Media Platform Named 'TRUTH Social'
India.com News Desk | October 21, 2021 8:07 AM IST
Trump's social media platform is expected to begin its beta launch for "invited guests" next month.
Donald Trump Announces Plans To Launch Own Social Media Platform Named 'TRUTH Social'
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Bigg Boss 15: Karan Kundrra Twists Pratik Sehajpal's Neck, Locks Him With Arms And Slams Him to Floor - Fans React
India.com Entertainment Desk | October 21, 2021 12:24 AM IST
Bigg Boss 15: During a task, Karan Kundrra got annoyed with Pratik Sehajpal. He locked him with his
Bigg Boss 15: Karan Kundrra Twists Pratik Sehajpal's Neck, Locks Him With Arms And Slams Him to Floor - Fans
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Bigg Boss 15: Vishal Kotian is 'Double Dholki', Say Fans in India.com Twitter Poll
Kritika Vaid | October 20, 2021 7:10 PM IST
Bigg Boss 15: Vishal Kotian is 'Double Dholki' as he bitched about Karan Kundrra. See India.com
Bigg Boss 15: Vishal Kotian is 'Double Dholki', Say Fans in India.com Twitter Poll
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Squid Game: Pakistanis Object to Show's Casting, Say 'It's Frustrating' - Check Tweets
India.com Entertainment Desk | October 20, 2021 6:51 PM IST
Pakistani viewers are disappointed with the makers of the Netflix show Squid Game because of its
Squid Game: Pakistanis Object to Show's Casting, Say 'It's Frustrating' - Check Tweets
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Fabindia Removes Viral Tweet Promoting Diwali Collection Called Jashn-e-Riwaaz After #BoycottFabindia Trends Online
Trending Desk | October 19, 2021 12:24 AM IST
The tweet was promptly removed after #BoycottFabIndia started trending on Twitter rigorously.
Fabindia Removes Viral Tweet Promoting Diwali Collection Called Jashn-e-Riwaaz After #BoycottFabindia Trends
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Man Orders Football Stockings From Myntra & Receives A Bra Instead, Tweet Leaves Netizens in Splits
Trending Desk | October 18, 2021 5:53 PM IST
When he reached out to customer support to seek an redressal for the goof-up, Myntra responded to
Man Orders Football Stockings From Myntra & Receives A Bra Instead, Tweet Leaves Netizens in Splits
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Bigg Boss 15: Karan Kundrra is No. 1, Tejasswi Prakash Comes 2nd - India.com Twitter Poll
Vineeta Kumar | October 18, 2021 5:13 PM IST
As per the latest poll related to Bigg Boss 15 on the India.com Twitter handle, Karan Kundrra
Bigg Boss 15: Karan Kundrra is No. 1, Tejasswi Prakash Comes 2nd - India.com Twitter Poll
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T20 World Cup: #Ban Pak Cricket Trends on Twitter Ahead of Blockbuster Clash Against Virat Kohli-Led India
India.com Sports Desk | October 17, 2021 2:45 PM IST
Now because of the horrid attacks, we have to wait and see whether it will affect the blockbuster
T20 World Cup: #Ban Pak Cricket Trends on Twitter Ahead of Blockbuster Clash Against Virat Kohli-Led India
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Michael Vaughan to Wasim Jaffer, Twitterverse React to Rahul Dravid's Appointment as Team India Coach
India.com Sports Desk | October 16, 2021 1:49 PM IST
BCCI is yet to make a statement regarding the appointment but the entire social media is buzzing as
Michael Vaughan to Wasim Jaffer, Twitterverse React to Rahul Dravid's Appointment as Team India Coach
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Vishal Kotian Betrayed Karan Kundrra by Strategising With Shamita Shetty, Say Fans | India.com Twitter Poll - Bigg Boss 15
Vineeta Kumar | October 15, 2021 9:15 PM IST
Vishal Kotian decided to form an alliance with Shamita Shetty and did not tell his friend Karan
Vishal Kotian Betrayed Karan Kundrra by Strategising With Shamita Shetty, Say Fans | India.com Twitter Poll -
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Honsla Rakh LIVE Review: Shehnaaz Gill-Diljit Dosanjh Win Hearts, Their Tu-Tu Main-Main Will Make You Go ROFL
India.com Entertainment Desk | October 15, 2021 10:22 AM IST
Among the people who grabbed the first day, first show ticket of Honsla Rakh was Kritika Vaid of
Honsla Rakh LIVE Review: Shehnaaz Gill-Diljit Dosanjh Win Hearts, Their Tu-Tu Main-Main Will Make You Go ROFL
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Facebook Family Outage: Usage of Google Maps Surge 125 Times; Text, Call Up by 75 Times | Details Here
Sumaila Zaman | October 13, 2021 5:20 PM IST
The trend report is based upon the privacy-compliant data sourced from 50 million devices in India,
Facebook Family Outage: Usage of Google Maps Surge 125 Times; Text, Call Up by 75 Times | Details Here
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Twitter Unveils 'Soft Block' Feature That Will Allow Web Users to Remove Followers Without Blocking
India.com News Desk | October 12, 2021 5:45 PM IST
Twitter's new remove follower feature is more of a remote unfollow button, a gentler way to create
Twitter Unveils 'Soft Block' Feature That Will Allow Web Users to Remove Followers Without Blocking
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Subramanian Swamy Changes Twitter Bio After Being Dropped From BJP's National Executive
India.com News Desk | October 8, 2021 2:52 PM IST
Apart from Swamy, Varun Gandhi and his mother Maneka were also dropped from the saffron party's
Subramanian Swamy Changes Twitter Bio After Being Dropped From BJP's National Executive
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2021-10-08T03:52:24+00:00
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Shehnaaz Gill Was Sidharth Shukla's 'Jaan': Kushal Tandon Makes SidNaaz Fans go Super Emotional
India.com Entertainment Desk | October 5, 2021 12:31 PM IST
In a Twitter chat with his fans. Kushal Tandon, very lovingly, said that Shehnaaz Gill will always
Shehnaaz Gill Was Sidharth Shukla's 'Jaan': Kushal Tandon Makes SidNaaz Fans go Super Emotional
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2021-10-05T01:31:12+00:00
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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Down Globally; Company Issues Statement | Read Here
India.com News Desk | October 4, 2021 11:22 PM IST
Users took to microblogging site Twitter to write about their issues in accessing Facebook and
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Down Globally; Company Issues Statement | Read Here
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Hello Everyone! Here's What Twitter, Google, Zomato Said on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram Global Outage
India.com News Desk | October 5, 2021 12:10 AM IST
The website downdetector.com, which tracks web services, showed over 50,000 incidents of people
Hello Everyone! Here's What Twitter, Google, Zomato Said on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram Global Outage
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down; Twitter Flooded With Hilarious Memes | Check Here
India.com News Desk | October 4, 2021 9:25 PM IST
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook suffered an outage in India and worldwide on Monday night. A lot
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down; Twitter Flooded With Hilarious Memes | Check Here
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BTS Jungkook Rules Twitter, Becomes Only Person In World With 3 Million Likes On 5 Tweets | ARMY Celebrates
India.com Entertainment Desk | October 3, 2021 12:01 PM IST
Jungkook has become the first and currently the only person in the world with 3 million likes on 5
BTS Jungkook Rules Twitter, Becomes Only Person In World With 3 Million Likes On 5 Tweets | ARMY Celebrates
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