Twitter was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey. Twitter started off as another way to send text messages which were originally limited to 160 characters per message. Twitter shortened down the characters one was able to use down to 140 characters per tweet. Twitter allowed people to communicate to small groups rather then sending out a bunch of text messages and wasting your text messages. Twitter was originally name "twttr", which is a shortened version of Twitter.
Little did the founder know how successful his invention would become in the near future. Twitter is now a worldwide service for people to use to stay closer connected with friends, classmates, coworkers, celebrities, athletes and politicians. Even the President of the United States, Barack Obama has a twitter account and his tweet after his inauguration was one of the most retweeted tweets ever. As of 2012 there were 500 million users on twitter. Twitter users would post about 340 million tweets per day. That is a combined total through every twitter user.
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