Twitter

Twitters History:

Have you ever wondered how one of the biggest news yet still considered social media platforms came about? Built by the framework Ruby on Rails, Twitter first became an idea in 2006, Based on Odea, an already existing website to search audio and video. However, when Apple launched iTunes, Odea pretty much crashed. The main founders of Odea and Twitter, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, both previously worked for Google. Evan Williams and Biz Stone both did amazing work such-as creating the Blogger website. When Twitter was first launched in March of 2006 its idea was to be a free SMS messaging-with a social networking element, which is why there use to be a 140-word character limit. But By 2007 there were 60,000 tweets sent per day, so the limit was then raised to 280 and is more known as social media, than another way to send text messages. Today Twitter has 2 million users and in 2016 it was discovered that there are about 500 million tweets are being sent per day, which averages 200 billion tweets per year. 

Twitters Impact: 

Twitter is one of the largest social media platforms to receive your news from following Facebook. A recent study shows that 36% of Twitter users follow some kind of news source. Not only do you receive news from social media instead of the old fashioned newspaper or television, but it has also changed how fast the public receives news. Twitter has made a race for journalists everywhere to be the first one to break news. This could be a great thing because it can build a journalist's platform and reliability. However, on the flip side, one little mistake or error could end a career forever. In fact, there have been several huge news stories that broke on twitter, check out the top ten with the link below. With one of the top story's being the famous plane landing on the Hudson River. Not only can Twitter make or break a journalist, but it can now dictate what is considered news in a sense and what is not. If society does not like the story or post then it won't go viral whereas if society finds the story interesting it will go viral. Not only did Twitter completely change the way that journalist work, but it also impacts everyday people with a total of 52% of users, use twitter as a way to communicate with their family.  

→   https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/internet/10-news-stories-that-broke-on-twitter-first-719532

Sources: https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+over+the+years&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS894US894&sxsrf=ALeKk00A3NgM3uiTkVbigYBbUvN7_VNKGg:1588267166548&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAw5Si1JDpAhVFUt8KHXyfD2IQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw&biw=1440&bih=821#imgrc=g8iQj9a8da-xVM
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