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It all began on March 21, 2006 when the first tweet of the story was published.
Since then, this network has added 320 million users and has played a key role in the Arab Spring and other major global events.
Gone are the days when you could only publish an 140 character message. Now you can also send links, photos, direct messages, videos or make streaming .
However, Twitter celebrates its first decade of life with some shadows, to stagnate in number of users and lose half its market value since it began trading on the stock exchange in November 2013.
still, it remains a social network reference.
with the tenth anniversary, the BBC collects 10 of the most famous debuts on Twitter .
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As we said, it all started ten years ago when Jack Dorsey, co-founder and current CEO of Twitter, wrote the first tweet when the network still called Twttr .
Other names then shuffled were Friendstalker ( “stalker friends”) or Jitter ( “be nervous”).
Yes, the first tweet from the official Twitter account would only 478 days later.
The most famous
Since then, many celebrities have joined this network, realizing it was a perfect way to get directly to his followers.
and is that being on Twitter has become a fundamental tool for them because they can do without press releases to announce something.
If you declare them to Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft, who launched the network in 2010 with a “Hello world”.
The current president of the United States, Barack Obama , joined long before Gates.
He wrote his first tweet just a year after Twitter began, when he said they were only one signature to end the Iraq war, while Senator.
Obama currently has the fourth most popular Twitter account, with 71.4 million followers, more than any other world leader.
Latin America, one of the politicians who embraced this social network with more firmness was the Venezuelan exmandatario Hugo Chavez , who came to add 4.27 million followers before his death three years ago.
Fear imitators
Many of the celebrities who opened an account on Twitter feared imitators, so from the beginning wanted to make clear that they were in fact they, like Kim Kardashian who already has more than 21,000 tweets published.
The American singer Katy Perry is currently the most popular on Twitter ., with more than 84 million followers since he created his account in 2009
his first message was: Just got into Berlin … thank you feeling better, have my Vicks inhaler by my bedside … and PS I TWITTTTER! GAH. Such a follower! he said he had just arrived in Berlin, she felt better, she had her inhaler beside his bed and already tweeted.
Perry wrested few years ago the Canadian singer Bieber Justin the title of the most popular person on Twitter.
when it debuted in this network, Bieber was not sure that could serve, so he used it to promote a song that had just launched.
Christian and Pope
Among the athletes, the most popular is the Real Madrid player Christian . Ronaldo , who writes in all languages
in fact his first tweet was in English: Ola Twitter! Welcome to my new official Twitter page. ( “Hello Twitter! Welcome to my official Twitter account”).
So Pope Francisco has joined this network, though it did relatively late, namely March 17, 2013.
His first tweet was: “Dear friends, I thank you heart and I ask you to continue praying for me for Francis.”
. still, late should not discourage anyone. The Pope, for example, already has more than 11 million followers.
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