Happy Birthday, Twitter!
Despite multiple roller coaster rides experienced by Twitter over the decade, Twitter marks its tenth year today, March 21st. Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass back in March 2006. Today, it has more than 500 million users, with 300 million of them still actively tweeting.
“As March 21st begins around the world, each of our global offices will kick off the day by showing our appreciation and gratitude,” reads the blog post announcement from Twitter posted on Sunday. “Starting in Sydney and following the sun to headquarters in San Francisco.”
The fastest pace to a million followers was set by actor Robert Downey Jr. in just 23 hours and 22 minutes back in April 2014. Other popular trending posts or topics on Twitter were the 2012 Presidential election, Ellen’s legendary Oscar selfie, the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and Zayn Malik leaving One Direction.
