21st March 2006 Jack Dorsey was the first to tweet. It was an official tweet by the co founder of twitter. The era of micro blogging was started.

The tweet read “Just setting up my twitter”

With time it has gain lot popularity and now it is a platform used by many renowned celebrities.

Lady Gaga tops the list with 8.78 million followers. Britney spears, Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian are at second third and fourth position respectively.

Charlie Sheen was the fastest in gaining followers. He gained one million in just 24 hrs.

Google and Microsoft started mingling tweets in their search result from October 2009

Presently Twitter has 370+ human resources and hiring is going on.

The head office is in San Francisco and their chains are in cities like New York Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles

It was integrated in the month of April 2007 and founder member includes Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey

The initial logo of twitter was designed by Biz Stone, a graphic designer.

Dick Costolo CEO of twitter was a former comedian

Presently twitter has 200 million genuine users tweeting 140 million a day.