1. The first tweet in 2006: “Just set up my twttr”
Twitter was officially founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Noah Glass and Biz Stone.
It all started in 2005 when Evan Williams, Noah Glass and Biz Stones owned the podcast company Odeo. Competition is hot and business is down. To update their activities, Jack Dorsey, then a web designer, had an idea to create a text message communication website so that he could share information and life moments with those around him faster.
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted his first tweet. Just posting my twttr“literally” i post my twttr“. Tweets are limited to 140 characters. The site was officially opened to the public on July 13, 2006.
2. January 15, 2009: “There’s a Plane in the Hudson”
The social network is rapidly shaking the way of information with its immediacy. Newspapers got a taste of it on January 15, 2009, when entrepreneur Janice Crooms tweeted a photo of a plane that had landed on the Hudson River near Manhattan.
This is US Airways Flight 1549, which just hit a flock of birds, just minutes after takeoff from La Guardia Airport. After making an emergency landing on the water, 154 passengers and crew managed to evacuate the plane.
The photo published by Yanis Krums on Twitter quickly spread virally. In the first four hours of installation, it was viewed 40,000 times. For the media, this image becomes the first available visual evidence. Half an hour after taking the photo, the entrepreneur even takes an interview on the American MSNBC TV channel.
3. September 12, 2013: Twitter’s IPO
On September 12, 2013, the social network announced its IPO. The very slow growth of the number of monthly active users of the social network causes the dissatisfaction of the shareholders and the markets in general. The sale of Twitter has already been mentioned.
Despite everything, on February 8, 2018, Twitter announced its first quarterly net profit. In the same year, the social network generalized the practice “thread“, launched in December 2017. This is a feature that links messages together to create a thread and create a longer message.
4. January 8, 2021, Donald Trump’s last tweet
The social network, which has also become mandatory for politicians, decided to permanently ban Donald Trump’s account on January 8, 2021, two days after his supporters occupied the Capitol and interrupted the counting of votes for the presidential election.
The former President of the United States has tweeted more than 26,000 times since entering the White House in 2017 and has popularized this way of making political statements directly on Twitter.
To justify the suspension of its account, the social network cited two recent tweets by Donald Trump, in the first of which he described his supporters as “patriotsand in the other, he announces that he will not participate in the induction of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. Twitter further considers that these messages violate the rules prohibiting calls for violence.
5. October 28, 2022 Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter
“ The bird is released(the bird was released), it was under these conditions that billionaire Elon Musk announced his control of Twitter. The world’s richest man, the head of Tesla and Space X, officially acquired the social network on Thursday, October 26, for $44 billion, according to a number of American media, including Reuters and The New York Times.
Immediately, the entrepreneur fired CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal and chief legal and policy officer Vijaya Gadde, who were behind the ban on Donald Trump’s account.
It is the culmination of a case that began in April last year, when Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion before backing out in early July, accusing the company of lying to him. The company’s Board of Directors then took legal action. The two sides have until Friday, Oct. 28, to reach an agreement to avoid a trial in November.
Source: Le Figaro
I am David Wyatt, a professional writer and journalist for Buna Times. I specialize in the world section of news coverage, where I bring to light stories and issues that affect us globally. As a graduate of Journalism, I have always had the passion to spread knowledge through writing.