Twitter

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Twitter

Type	Private
Founded	San Francisco, California, United States
Founder	Jack Dorsey Noah Glass Evan Williams Biz Stone
Headquarters	795 Folsom Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107,United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jack Dorsey (Executive Chairman) Dick Costolo (CEO) Evan Williams (Director) Biz Stone (Creative director)
Revenue	US $140 million (projected 2010)
Employees	600+ (2011)
Website	twitter.com
Alexa rank	9 (October 2011)
Type of site	Mobile social-network service,microblogging
Registration	Required (to post, follow or be followed)
Users	200 million (March 2011)
Available in	Multilingual, including Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog and Malay.
Launched	July 15, 2006

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. Twitter rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 200 million users as of 2011, generating over 200 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet."

Twitter Inc., the company that operates the service and associated website, is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in San Antonio, Boston, and New York City.

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