Twitter was founded in 2006 by co-founder Jack Dorsey. It originally was imagined as a SMS based communications platform where friends could be in touch with each other. When Dorsey proposed Twitter to podcast company Odeo, Odeo's co founders, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, gave Dorsey the go ahead to further develop Twitter. Twitter used to be named twttr. Software developer Noah Glass made the name twttr and eventually developed it into Twitter. Dorsey, Williams and Stone bought Twitter back from their investors after it was going through a rough patch. Apple's release of its own podcasting platform was a reason why Twitter was going through a rough patch.
At the South by Southwest interactive conference, there was a major amount of Twitter usage. In fact there were over 60,000 tweets that were sent just that day at the event.
In 2016 Twitter expanded the maximum length of videos posted to the service from 30 seconds to 140 seconds. Also in 2016, Twitter shared 600 hours of live video and had 31 million viewers. Millions of people went to Twitter during the Presidential debates, election and 2017 inauguration. They also have partnerships with the NFL, Disney channel and Buzzfeed.
There are some pros and cons when it comes to Twitter as well. Some pros are you can receive the latest news quickly, Twitter gives your business free publicity, there are no political ads and Twitter is a great platform for free speech and self expression. A couple cons are fake accounts are a problem and people rarely every buy directly on or from Twitter.
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