Twitter: Jack Dorsey
Twitter Usage
255 million monthly active users 500 million Tweets are sent per day 78% of Twitter active users are on mobile 77% of accounts are outside of the US Twitter supports 35+ languages
Company facts
3,000 employees in offices around the world 50% of employees are engineers Incorporated April 19, 2007
High school?
went to a CAtholic high school, called Bishop DuBourg High School
College?
Attended the Missouri University of Science and Technology before transferring to New York University where first came up with the idea of Twitter. (later moved to California)
What am I known for?
Being the co-founder and co-creator of Twitter, Flettic, and as the founder and CEO of Square. Mainly Twitter.
Who am I?
I am a web developer, web designer and a businessman.
When was it launch?
July 2006
Born and where?
November 19th, 1976 St. Louis, Missouri
How did the Idea of Twitter come?
The podcasting company Odeo needed new ideas. Jack introduced the idea of creating an SMS(short message service) that would allow users to communicate in a small group. Twitter was first called "status" until the group looked in the dictionary and found twitter which fit the best. Orginially named twttr.
What is twitter?
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that lets users send and read short 140-character messages, called tweets. There are multiple things you can do on Twitter like post pictures, block people, follow others, retweet tweets. Twitter is based in San Francisco(there Headquarters) and has offices in New York City, Boston, Austin, and Detroit.
When did I create Twitter?
in March 2006
