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.
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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Comments
Christina
June 22nd, 2009 - 8:32:25 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.
Sarah Palin
June 22nd, 2009 - 9:23:41 AM
Twitter is gay
sean malarkey
June 22nd, 2009 - 9:47:55 AM
Awesome Photo - Can I host it on my site?
Sean Percival
June 22nd, 2009 - 10:06:34 AM
yes go ahead! just please link back here in your post.
Andrew
June 22nd, 2009 - 10:21:15 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.
MIke
June 22nd, 2009 - 10:46:04 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.
James
June 22nd, 2009 - 11:02:27 AM
It's VodaFONE. Not fucking Vodaphone.
Daniel Dorsey
June 22nd, 2009 - 11:50:17 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
daniel Dorsey
June 22nd, 2009 - 11:53:27 AM
oh march 31st is also @ev's b-day
Ashley
June 22nd, 2009 - 1:19:35 PM
Very nice, I love the the sketch of Obama - it made me giggle.
Television Spy
June 22nd, 2009 - 2:51:52 PM
Great chart, Biz Stone has been getting a lot of attention recently.
Carolina mama
June 22nd, 2009 - 2:56:34 PM
Thanks for this visual. Happy to say I've been with them almost all along. :)
D-green
June 22nd, 2009 - 5:38:32 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.
Vanessa
June 22nd, 2009 - 5:41:25 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!
Martynas Grabauskas
June 22nd, 2009 - 5:41:58 PM
Dude. Move twiter to 64bit system. lol
Paula
June 22nd, 2009 - 6:12:36 PM
I just love Twitter, I'm trying to get all my friends & family to Twitt as well
curiousEngine
June 23rd, 2009 - 1:12:45 AM
Very informative Graphic!
Jan Kozlowski
June 23rd, 2009 - 6:00:02 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!
Abraham kurian
June 23rd, 2009 - 9:28:33 AM
Interesting story.
Fernando
June 23rd, 2009 - 10:53:22 PM
AWESOME piece of work
Antonio Tajuelo
June 24th, 2009 - 6:47:12 AM
Cool graphic, nice to see it ^^
Jorge
June 24th, 2009 - 11:00:31 AM
Cool print! Thanks for post!
bilgisayar
June 24th, 2009 - 2:45:25 PM
Cool graphic, nice to see it ^^
Richard Hendrickson
June 24th, 2009 - 10:23:03 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.
lauron
July 2nd, 2009 - 12:37:02 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.
Jim Whitby
July 6th, 2009 - 12:30:10 PM
still don't see a need but I don't klnow much about it
Anonymous
July 6th, 2009 - 12:32:38 PM
what does it do for an old disabled man that won't be done by Forbes or Playboy?
Twitpocalipsis: La historia hasta el momento
October 9th, 2009 - 10:35:19 PM
[...] Fuente original: Manolith [...]
Scott Rafer
November 26th, 2009 - 4:26:37 PM
Everyone always forgets the part where Ev reached into his own pocket in mid-2006 to pay the original Odeo investors back -- at a hundred cents on the dollar. He understood what was coming well enough to spend $5MM in cash.