| Status | Privately Held |
| Website | twitter.com |
| Blog | twitter.com/blog |
| Category | Web |
| pr@twitter.com | |
| Address |
164 South Park San Francisco, CA, 94107 USA |
| Employees | 17 |
| Founded | 3/06 |
| Total | $5.4M |
| Series B, 7/07 1 Charles River Ventures Union Square Ventures Marc Andreessen Dick Costolo Naval Ravikant Ron Conway Chris Sacca | $5.4M |
| Series C, 1/08 2 Digital Garage |
Founded in July 2006, Twitter is social networking and micro-blogging site 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.
| Website | twitter.com |
| Blog | twitter.com/blog |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | March 1, 2006 |
| Tags | twitter, communication, text, messages |
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 | twitter.com |
| Blog | blog.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.).
