From the first tweet of founder Jack Dorsey to the discoveries of NASA to Mars; by messages exchanged during the Arab Spring to the shots of astronauts from space; the announcement of the birth of the Royal Baby of William and Kate to the capture of the terrorist Salah Abdeslam – “we” – one of the authors of the Paris attacks on 13 November. The 10 years of Twitter are dotted with tweets that have marked its history.
It is 21 March 2006 when a young Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of the company, is the world’s first to chirp. “I’m just setting up my twttr”, he writes, but there is still no one who can read his message. In 2007, Chris Messina user launches an idea: “How about use # for groups?”, And invents the hashtag. He now works in Uber,
after a past as a Google employee.
In his ten years of life, the social network has often been a privileged place for big announcements in 140 characters as that of NASA that on June 19 of 2008 tweets that on Mars there is frozen water, commenting: “It’s the best day ever!”. Users continue to grow, and the time is now ripe for the big leap towards information. In 2009, the entrepreneur Janis Krump tweets emergency landing photo of a plane on the Hudson River in New York by beating time on traditional media. In 2011, computer scientist Sohaib Athar with the post “A helicopter above Abottabad” attack becomes unconscious chronicler of the Navy Seal to Bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan. His is the first of tweets that tell the Operation Neptune Spear. On 23 November 2015, the Belgian federal police post a picture of a bowl of kibble and thanked “cats” for their help. It is designed for users who tweet, posting pictures of cats during the special operations forces, engaged in the hunt for terrorists of the Paris attacks, have “disturbed” the flow of information by preventing leaks.
They have withstood the 140 characters with their accompanying photos, videos and hashtag, the powerful of the world. In 2010 the Dalai Lama inaugurates its tweeting account the visit to Los Angeles, while the Pope arrives on the microblogging two years later. Poorly attended by Benedict XVI, Twitter is much used by Francesco: 728 posts and nearly three and a half million followers. “Dear friends, I thank you and ask you to continue praying for me,” he wrote March 17, 2013, four days after the election, and a few days ago announced, on Twitter, your account even on Instagram, platform dedicated to sharing photos. Even Barack Obama is a fan of social networks: in 2012 announced the reappointment at the White House with a post that has become one of the most retwittati of all time: “Four years blackberries (Other four years)” as well as the numerous messages have been successful dedicated to his wife Michelle on the anniversary of marriage. In 2015, he missed the podium of the year tweet expressing its support for the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage in front of him only One Direction that the first three places are awarded. This time Obama has used his personal account “@POTUS”, an acronym of his role: President of The United States.
The English royal family does not mind Twitter: July 22, 2013 is the account Clarence House to break the news of the birth of the Royal Baby, George Alexander Louis, and the page is always-date with photos and video of all events that affect the real.
Among the Top post to always stand out those with the images attached, preferably it is selfie. In 2014 the self-timer from Ellen DeGeneres with other stars in the audience during the Oscar night was retwittato over 3 million times. Recently, on the same stage, a new record: the marked Leonardo DiCaprio. His win at the Oscars for Best Actor for the film Revenant Revenant-generated 440 thousand tweets. Per minute.
About record is impossible not to mention #ALDubEBTamangPanahon, the hashtag dedicated to a live show inspired by the Philippine soap opera of Cinderella. It generated 41 million tweets, the most tweeted event in history. In comparison 35 million tweets of the semifinal of the 2014 World Cup between Brazil and Germany, seem to peanuts.
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