Monday, March 21, 2016 the famous blue twittering bird will be 10 years. For its technical characteristics and use, rather than a social network like Facebook, Twitter could be called a microblogging platform. Probably are the differences that compared to Facebook to even guarantee him a proper usability space on the network, without invading the opponent’s territory. essential peculiarity of Twitter, in addition to using strategic mentions (@) and hashtag (#) to index tweets, is the predetermined maximum total length of 140 characters, which excludes the possibility of long and sometimes Highly redundant messages we are used to on Facebook and Twitter which makes it an excellent channel for the massive and instant dissemination of news constantly updated. Another major difference from its rivals is the ‘ asymmetrical friendship , which enables you to update a user without having to wait for a confirmation of friendship.
these features Twitter have led since the early years to become a meeting point between artists and their fans, but also a platform frequented by politicians or aspiring who soon glimpsed in the company of a Jack Dorsey strategic tool of propaganda. According to a ranking of the end of 2015, on the podium of the most followed accounts worldwide would find Barack Obama, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry in the first place, while in Italy stand out Valentino Rossi, Jovanotti and Laura Pausini.
Twitter for years has become a witness of various Piò or less historically significant events. In 2009, it was mainly through Twitter that spread to the world the pictures and videos of the protests in Iran before and after the Arab Spring, as it has been for the Spanish mobilizations of the Movement 15-M in 2011. In Italy Twitter has played a role essential during the Emilia earthquake in 2012, when the news circulated platform in real time on the status of earthquake locations well before the information were distributed in the mainstream media. Finally we very discuss the closure of 125,000 account because, according to no well-specified sources, Islamic terrorist sympathizers.
Active users are 230 million , a number still far away from half billion Facebook. Also do not miss the news about the loss of 50% of the value of the shares from the IPO which took place in 2013.
Despite the numbers in red and cut-throat competition of Instagram and Snapchat that limit the growth of users, the founder and CEO Jack Dorsey does not show himself shot down and declares that Twitter “is an essential service, there will be in 2020 and also in 2030″ . Statement probably realistic but on which no one may rely too much, considering the unbridled speed with which the virtual world is able to change.
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