Twitter Turns 10 today: here’s how it’s Celebrating

It’s exhausting to imagine, however the microblogging carrier Twitter turns 10 years outdated these days. On March 21, 2006, the service formally went live with Jack Dorsey sending the primary tweet ever, which read: “simply putting in place my twttr.”

“On March 21, ten years ago, it commenced with a single Tweet. due to the fact then, each second of on a regular basis, individuals join in regards to the issues they care about most — in all places the sector,” the corporate wrote in a weblog put up commemorating its tenth anniversary. “As we mark this milestone, it’s you we wish to celebrate. As March 21 starts offevolved around the globe, every of our international workplaces will kick off the day by using displaying our appreciation and gratitude — starting in Sydney and following the solar to headquarters in San Francisco. we are excited to have a good time with all of you. all over the years, you’ve made Twitter what it’s nowadays and also you’re shaping what it’s going to be in the future. thanks for making history, riding trade, lifting each and every other up and laughing together day by day.”

the company additionally launched a two-and-a-1/2 minute commemorative video that displays Twitter’s function as a purveyor of knowledge and activist platform for world occasions such because the Arab Spring, the 2011 japanese tsunami, marriage equality, and the Black Lives matter movement. The video also shows off the more humorous aspect of Twitter with humorous tweets from celebs and viral movies and GIFs.

in all probability most curiously, alternatively—and an indication of what the company plans to do sooner or later—is the video ends with a thank-you tweet that goes over Twitter’s 140-character limit. The author of the tweet then deletes just a few characters and replaces them with emojis to suit the tweet in. This generally is a signal that Twitter has decided to persist with its defining a hundred and forty-personality limit as a substitute of raising the size of its tweets.