Ok, so about a month ago the twitter bug spread through the Reinhardt baseball team like wildfire and I knew what I wanted to write my trend paper about. I figure it being the third largest and second fastest growing social media site in the world that even if Atiya was doing the same topic hopefully their would not be a lot of overlap. I am still very new to the twitter craze but am very intrigued by it all. Twitter was created back in 2006 and are composed of what are reffered to as microblogs that are 140 characters or less. Considered the SMS of the internet the large majority of all "tweets" are mindless bable and only 4% of tweets are considered news (Wiki). However, with over 200 million users and 65 million tweets world wide daily it has become a social media force to be recon with (BBC).
Creation
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey in San Francisco, California. The first tweet was sent in July of 06’ and since that day the social media networking site has grown to over 200 million users in just less than five years. Twitter was developed in a day long brainstorming session of a company called Odeo when Dorsey suggested the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate to a small group of people (Wiki). The original name was “Twttr” modeled after the site name flickr.
Growth
Since Twitters creation in 2006 it has grown from one user to over 200 million users worldwide including professional athletes, news corporations, musical artists and actors and actresses as well as your average person looking to express their ideas freely in an open forum. In 2007, the social site Twitter was averaging 20,000 tweets a day. In July 2010, the site averaged 65 million tweets per day, equaling about 750 tweets sent each second, according to Twitter (Garrett). That is an incredible growth in just a few years.
Twitter is now ranked as one of the ten-most-visited websites worldwide by Alexa's web traffic analysis and is continuing to grow and become more prevalent in American society daily. Twitter is commonly seen being highlighted on news shows, celebrity news shows, music channels, and Sport Center. It is a social media site that has now doubt engrained itself into popular culture and will continue to change and shape the framework of social structures across the globe.
"bbc.co.uk". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12889048. Retrieved 28 March 2011
Garrett, Sean (June 18, 2010). "Big Goals, Big Game, Big Records". Twitter Blog (blog of Twitter). http://blog.twitter.com/2010/06/big-goals-big-game-big-records.html. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
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