I remember when I first started hearing about Twitter, in the summer of 2006 less than six months after the service started earlier that year. As the year progressed, the name kept popping up in blog posts and comments - what social media was, really, back then - until I decided to see for myself what this thing was all about. And so, today marks my eighth #Twitterversary - eight years ago on this day, I signed up with the handle of @jangles. My Twitter ID number is 47973. (Did you know … [Read more...] about Marking eight years of Twitter
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Twitter eight years on
Today marks the eighth anniversary of Twitter, the communication platform that is globally ubiquitous today, the eleventh most-visited website in the world. From co-founder Jack Dorsey's first tweet on this day, March 21, in 2006, the number of active users of the service now exceed 240 million per month worldwide who tweet in more than 35 languages, with over three-quarters of people now using Twitter on a mobile device. Users range from the average Joe to celebrities, big brands, the … [Read more...] about Twitter eight years on