“At the end of 2015, Twitter had 305 million active users, ie, two million less than three months earlier, even when taking into account the service subscribers SMS, the figure is 320 million,” says a report by DPA .
Facebook, instead “has 1,600 million active users and growing, which in turn serves as an engine of growth in advertising revenue,” said the German news agency.
the social network of 140 characters arose by chance, when the small company Odeo, San Francisco (USA) wanted to create an audio service for the network and developer Jack Dorsey proposed to send to all team members messages . SMS to notify them about the project status, so that everyone knew what they were working on the other
Two weeks later it had developed a prototype: “Just setting up my twttr” said the first tweet that can be traced Dorsey, 21 March 2006. Three months later the influential American blog “TechCrunch” discovered the service and in April 2007 was founded Twitter Inc.
currently there is virtually no facts global relevance that does not pass through Twitter: the emergency landing of a flight on the Hudson river in New York in January 2009, manifestations of the Arab Spring in 2011, the bomb attack on the Boston marathon, selfies in changing the World Cup and panic unleashed by the terrorist attacks of November in Paris are just a few examples.
“Despite the challenges that accumulated on the horizon, Twitter can be sure that many prominent figures continue speaking directly to their audiences through this platform, either Donald Trump, who has almost seven million followers, Justin Bieber (77.2 million) or Taylor Swift (72.9 million), “DPA said.
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