| Website | twitter.com |
| Blog | twitter.com/blog |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 140 |
| Founded | 3/06 |
| Description | Social networking and microblogging |
| Total | $45.2M |
| Hotspots.io, 4/12 | |
| Posterous, 3/12 | |
| Dasient , 1/12 | |
| Summify, 1/12 | |
| Whisper Systems, 11/11 | |
| Julpan, 9/11 | |
| Bagcheck, 8/11 | |
| BackType, 7/11 | |
| AdGrok, 5/11 | |
| TweetDeck, 5/11 | $40M |
| Fluther, 12/10 | |
| Smallthought Systems, 6/10 | |
| Dabble DB, 6/10 | |
| Cloudhopper, 4/10 | |
| Atebits, 4/10 | |
| Mixer Labs, 12/09 | $5.2M |
| Values of n, 11/08 | |
| Summize, 7/08 |
| TOTAL | $1.16B |
| VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL | $1.16B |
| Series A, 7/07 Charles River Ventures Union Square Ventures Marc Andreessen Dick Costolo Naval Ravikant Ron Conway Chris Sacca Greg Yaitanes Brian Pokorny | $5M |
| Series B, 5/08 Union Square Ventures Bezos Expeditions Spark Capital Digital Garage Kevin Rose Timothy Ferriss | $15M |
| Series C, 2/09 Benchmark Capital Institutional Venture Partners Spark Capital Union Square Ventures Charles River Ventures Digital Garage | $35M |
| Series D, 9/09 Insight Venture Partners T. Rowe Price Spark Capital Benchmark Capital Institutional Venture Partners Morgan Stanley | $100M |
| Series F, 1/10 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers | $200M |
| Series E, 1/10 | $5.17M |
| Venture Round, 8/11 DST Global | $400M |
| Venture Round, 9/11 | $400M |
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 updates 140 characters long. Twitter “is a real-time information network that connects [users] to the latest stories, ideas, opinions, and news.”
The service can be accessed through a variety of methods, including Twitter’s website; text messaging; instant messaging; and third-party desktop, mobile, and web applications. Twitter is currently available in over 20 languages.
Twitter was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo.
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Added: 7/6/11
| Website | twicco.jp |
| Blog | twitter.com/blog |
| Stage | In Development |
| Launch Date | November 4, 2008 |
| Deadpool Date | July 31, 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.
Loic Le Meur demo’s Twicco
| Website | twitter.com |
| Blog | twitter.com/blog |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | March 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.
| Website | google.com |
| Blog | bkgmusic.com/?page_id=326 |
| 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.).
