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Websitetwitter.com
Blogtwitter.com/blog
Twitter@twitter
CategoryConsumer Web
Email
Employees83
Founded3/06
DescriptionSocial networking and microblogging

Offices

San Francisco, USA
795 Folsom St., Suite 600
San Francisco, CA, 94107
USA

People

Co-Founder, CEO
Co-Founder, Chairman
Co-founder & Creative Director
COO
Chief Scientist
Vice President, Business Operations
VP of Engineering
Director, Program Management
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Former People

CEO, Co-Founder
VP of Engineering and Operations
Architect

Acquisitions

Values of n, 11/08
Summize, 7/08

Funding

Competitors

Tags

Twitter

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks.

The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo.

In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage.

Milestones

  • Dollar
    Twitter received $100M in Series D funding. (9/25/09)
    Posted 9/25/09 at 9:08am
  • Dollar
    Twitter received $35M in Series C funding. (2/13/09)
    Posted 2/13/09 at 11:42am
  • Handshake
    Twitter acquired Values of n. (11/24/08)
    Posted 11/24/08 at 5:04pm
  • Handshake
    Twitter acquired Summize. (7/15/08)
    Posted 7/15/08 at 8:36am
  • Check
    Twitter — Hires Rudy Winnacker and John Adams, two new Operation Engineers (6/23/08)
    Posted 6/23/08 at 9:52pm
  • Check
    Twitter — Survives iPhone 3G Stevenote (6/9/08)
    Posted 6/18/08 at 12:14am
  • Check
    Twitter — Twitter partners with Summize to cover Apple news. (6/9/08)
    Posted 6/22/08 at 11:10am
  • Check
    Twitter — Launches a status blog to communicate to users better about issues with the service. (5/28/08)
    Posted 6/22/08 at 11:15am
  • Check
    Twitter — Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers (5/7/08)
    Posted 6/22/08 at 11:15am
  • Dollar
    Twitter received $15M in Series B funding. (5/08)
    Posted 4/22/08 at 10:27pm
  • Check
    Twitter — VP Lee Mighdoll Leaves Twitter (4/24/08)
    Posted 6/22/08 at 11:17am
  • Check
    Twitter — Chief Architect Blaine Cook Leaves Twitter (4/23/08)
    Posted 6/22/08 at 11:19am
  • Check
    Twitter — Twitter Japan Launches (4/22/08)
    Posted 6/22/08 at 11:20am
  • Check
    Twitter — Twitter helps bust American man out of Egyptian jail (4/16/08)
    Posted 6/22/08 at 11:21am
  • Dollar
    Twitter received $5M in Series A funding. (7/1/07)
    Posted 7/30/07 at 1:56am
  • Check
    Twitter — Twitter Launches (7/15/06)
    Posted 8/6/08 at 11:43am

Videos

Above:

Vator.tv Interview

Added: 2/16/09

Screenshots

Twitter screenshot
Above: Twitter Home Page July 2009
Uploaded: 7/25/09
Twitter screenshot
Above: Twitter Homepage as of July 28, 2009
Uploaded: 7/29/09
Twitter screenshot
Above: Twitter search results page as of July 28, 2009
Uploaded: 7/29/09

Products

Twicco

Websitetwicco.jp
Blogtwitter.com/blog
StageLive
Launch DateNovember 4, 2008
Deadpool DateJuly 1, 2009

Twicco.jp is a group and community feature for Twitter (currently available only in Japan). In Loic Le Meur’s demo video you can see it lets users create and follow a group instead of an individual account. Twitter Japan, a joint venture with Digital Garage, was already differentiating itself from the US version with ads in the feeds and therefor a monetization option right from the beginning.

Twitter screenshot
Above: Twicco Homepage
Uploaded: 11/5/08

Videos

Above:

Loic Le Meur demo’s Twicco

Twitter

Websitetwitter.com
Blogtwitter.com/blog
StageLive
Launch DateMarch 1, 2006
Tags twitter, communication, text, messages, microblogging

Twitter allows users to post text updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, Twitter’s website and third party applications. Users have their own profile page that displays their latest updates. In addition, users can become “friends” with one another, or simply be a “follower.” Other than reading another person’s profile page, a user can also receive others’ updates through text messages, RSS or third party applications.

Twitter itself is a free service, though users may have to pay text messaging charges to the phone carriers.

Twitter screenshot
Above: Twitter Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08
Twitter screenshot
Above: Twitter Screenshot -- #2
Uploaded: 2/5/08

Twitter Blocks

Websitetwitter.com
Blogblog.twitter.com
Tags socialnetworking

Twitter Blocks is a real-time visualization tool for recent updates from a user’s friends and their friends’ network of friends (and their friends’ friends’ network of friends, etc.).

Twitter screenshot
Above: Twitter Blocks Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Twitter

Sources

  1. Values of n Blog (valuesofn.com) []
  2. Confirmed: Twitter Acquires Summize Search Engine (techcrunch.com) []
  3. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
  4. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) []
  5. Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others (techcrunch.com) []
  6. Twitter (blog.twitter.com) []
  7. Twitter Fails To Fail, Community Rejoices (techcrunch.com) []
  8. Twitter Partners With Summize to Cover Apple News (techcrunch.com) []
  9. What's Going On? (blog.twitter.com) []
  10. Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers (techcrunch.com) []
  11. VP Lee Mighdoll Out At Twitter, Business Plan Still MIA (techcrunch.com) []
  12. Amateur Hour Over At Twitter? (techcrunch.com) []
  13. Twitter! Japan! Ads! (techcrunch.com) []
  14. Twitter Saves Man From Egyptian Justice (techcrunch.com) []
  15. Introducing John Adams and Rudy (blog.twitter.com) []
  16. Odeo Releases Twttr (techcrunch.com) []
  17. twitter.com []

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