The Story (so far) of Twitter

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By Sean Percival on June 21, 2009

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. Seems every where you turn these days that little blue bird is staring you right in the face. But how did it all start? Where is it all going? Who’s to say really, except you I suppose, in 140 character bursts. In the meantime let’s take a look back on some milestones of microblogging.

Please do enjoy, The Story (so far) of Twitter. Start at the bottom and work your way up on this one.

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Graphic by Infoshot, please feel free to use this image on your blog, just be sure to link back here to the original source.

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Reader Comments

  1. Christina June 22, 2009 - 8:32 am

    Do you think Twitter will become more popular than Facebook? It seems more people are using Facebook than MySpace and now Twitter seems to be taking over.

  2. Sarah Palin June 22, 2009 - 9:23 am

    Twitter is gay

  3. sean malarkey June 22, 2009 - 9:47 am

    Awesome Photo – Can I host it on my site?

  4. Sean Percival June 22, 2009 - 10:06 am

    yes go ahead! just please link back here in your post.

  5. Andrew June 22, 2009 - 10:21 am

    The whole “Facebook v Twitter” debate is silly. Twitter offers a vastly different service then Facebook does, and it would make sense people would have both. If they could only have one I think it would be Facebook, just because of the photo/messaging/video etc. abilities that twitter doesn’t have.

  6. MIke June 22, 2009 - 10:46 am

    Twitter is a great tool for finding current events which is where search engines and other social network tools fail. If I go to twitter and type in ‘Portland’ into the search you bet I will find up to the minute tweets on events or things that are going on around town.

    That is the one good thing about it. Plus I own a few websites and they get the majority of there traffic now from twitter and people twitting the urls. I don’t have to do any web promotion at all and can let others promote it for me instantly.

    I like it.

  7. James June 22, 2009 - 11:02 am

    It’s VodaFONE. Not fucking Vodaphone.

  8. Daniel Dorsey June 22, 2009 - 11:50 am

    one problem with the chart @jack’s birthday is November 19th i should know he is my older brother my birthday is march 31st

  9. daniel Dorsey June 22, 2009 - 11:53 am

    oh march 31st is also @ev’s b-day

  10. Ashley June 22, 2009 - 1:19 pm

    Very nice, I love the the sketch of Obama – it made me giggle.

  11. Television Spy June 22, 2009 - 2:51 pm

    Great chart, Biz Stone has been getting a lot of attention recently.

  12. Carolina mama June 22, 2009 - 2:56 pm

    Thanks for this visual. Happy to say I’ve been with them almost all along. :)

  13. D-green June 22, 2009 - 5:38 pm

    Stfu Sarah Palin, u a hater just like tht ignorant perez hilton. f-em and u lol…

    be on the look for d-green. guarenteed to be way better.

    wow checkk my fresh llol.

  14. Vanessa June 22, 2009 - 5:41 pm

    I think everything Twitter and Facebook is cool. Hell the internet is cool, just remember most of the people who use these tools were not even born when they came into existence. So there Sarah Palin if that was really you. I hope not being a mother and all we know who is gay!

  15. Martynas Grabauskas June 22, 2009 - 5:41 pm

    Dude. Move twiter to 64bit system. lol

  16. Paula June 22, 2009 - 6:12 pm

    I just love Twitter, I’m trying to get all my friends & family to Twitt as well

  17. curiousEngine June 23, 2009 - 1:12 am

    Very informative Graphic!

  18. Jan Kozlowski June 23, 2009 - 6:00 am

    Love the graphic! Thanks for the entertaining and informative Twitter history lesson.

    Up until a few months ago I only had a vague idea of what Twitter was and definitely never thought I would find a use for it. Then a brilliant techie friend and writer came up with the idea of using it as the basis for a fictional story telling experiment and the next thing I knew we had Tweet Mystery of Death up and running and I was tweeting dozens of times a day, sending twitpics, using Twiturm for music and sound bites and reconfiguring my Tweetdeck to keep track of the characters and all the murder and mayhem they were involved in.

    All in all, it’s been not only lots of fun, but a great learning adventure. Thanks for adding the historical perspective to it as well!

  19. Abraham kurian June 23, 2009 - 9:28 am

    Interesting story.

  20. Fernando June 23, 2009 - 10:53 pm

    AWESOME piece of work

  21. Antonio Tajuelo June 24, 2009 - 6:47 am

    Cool graphic, nice to see it ^^

  22. Jorge June 24, 2009 - 11:00 am

    Cool print!

    Thanks for post!

  23. bilgisayar June 24, 2009 - 2:45 pm

    Cool graphic, nice to see it ^^

  24. Richard Hendrickson June 24, 2009 - 10:23 pm

    Twitter is all about making friends in a better way. That why it grows like crazy. I found twitter is the best way to build a community within my niche. It grows fast and its easy.

  25. lauron July 2, 2009 - 12:37 pm

    the thing at about the very top about if twitter will take over..i dont really think so bc people use facebook like twitter with the ‘whats on your mind?’ thing..except on facebook you can say more from a cell phone. i havent used a computer for twitter so maybe you can type more from a computer. buuut no i dont think twitter will take over-just saying. and myspace facebook and twitter all have the status updates.

  26. Jim Whitby July 6, 2009 - 12:30 pm

    still don’t see a need but I don’t klnow much about it

  27. Anonymous July 6, 2009 - 12:32 pm

    what does it do for an old disabled man that won’t be done by Forbes or Playboy?

  28. Twitpocalipsis: La historia hasta el momento October 9, 2009 - 10:35 pm

    [...] Fuente original: Manolith [...]

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