Essay #1

Twitter

1.     Introduction:-

My topic is about Twitter. Twitter is one of the most famous online social networking services. In my essay I am going to look at the early history, development and the modern developments of Twitter. The social networking websites draw attention of a huge number of people in the world. It allows people from all over the world to upload their photos, chatting and sharing information between people from all classes.

2.     Early history:-

Twitter has started with a simple idea by Jack Dorsey when he invented a program of SMS communication by mobile phones between a few of his friends in 2000.  The program was not good enough to make a communication between a large numbers of people. Jack Dorsey thought that the program wouldn’t work and left it. One year later Jack worked for Odeo, a broadcasting company. Odea Company was the owner of Blogger and it has been sold to Google. Jack got interesting in working for a broadcasting company and there he met Twitter cofounders.

Apple announced that they are going to launch a free broadcasting network in the iTunes which will stop the business of the company that Jack work for. He thought to bring up his program trying to get it work with his mates and Evan Williams who was the founder of blogger and work for the company to make a hug social network. In 21nd March, 2006, the program was available to start and it was called "Twttr". He published the first tweet on that day "Just setting up my Twttr" he said, and invited his coworkers. After that they invited their families and there was the birth of Twitter.

 

3.     Development:-

The growth of Twitter impressed the world in a very short period and got concern all segments of society. At the beginning when Twitter launched it was ranked 116580^th visited website in the world, but it moved very fast in short period to get the 8^th most visited website in the world because. This movement in ranking Twitter moved fast for many reasons such as the users that it has for all segments. For example, Barack Obama the current President of the United States has an account in Twitter and that account helped on his re-election campaign last week tweeting to people what plans he is providing to win the election and he did it. As it is explained "To keep the social media powerhouse intact as more people, celebrities and world leaders find their roles in the birdcage, Twitter has evolved its aesthetics, functionality and business model. Below, we gathered the best moments in Twitter’s eventful existence to help you reminisce" (Hernandez, B. 2012). Nowadays, Twitter got about 175 million Twitter account activated since it has been launched to the public. The most person in Twitter followed by other people is Lady Gaga and there 30 million followers worldwide to see what she is tweeting. There many news people get from Twitter that been written by trusted people. For bringing up more clients for Twitter the website got to be an application to be used in the phones such as, Twitter Android and iOS apps.

4.     modern developments:-

The developers of the website would put in more features for their clients and these will be by providing ability in showing pictures and videos in the website itself which is not provided yet. The problem that the developers would solve is that Tweets are not showing in a media rich to everyone, it is only showed a media rich for whom using the official Twitter apps and Twitter.com promised that it will be able to use for everyone by June, 2013.  

5.     Conclusion:-

Nowadays the online social networking is drawing more attention of people from all classes for sharing of information which made a good knowledge and experience in a fast way. To sum up, Twitter will be a great field of many things for the number of clients and the importance of some of them as it is a great place to advertise and make rumors.

 

680 words.

 

 

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