Twitter turns nine Saturday March 21,2015

 

It's the ninth birthday of the tweeting birdie

 The very first tweet came from co-founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006

Since then, Twitter has now grown to more than 284 million users worldwide and expanding

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Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student at the New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. The project code name for the service was twttr.

The project took off on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey sent the first Twitter message: "just setting up my twttr"