All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries.While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. The website is based in San Bruno, California near San Francisco (where the website was first based). Twitter also has servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users.It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet."
Type Private Founded San Francisco, California,United States Founder Jack Dorsey
Evan Williams
Biz StoneHeadquarters 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107,United States Area served Worldwide Key people Jack Dorsey (Chairman)
Dick Costolo (CEO)
Evan Williams (Product Strategy)
Biz Stone (Creative Director)Revenue ▲ US $150 million (projected 2010) Employees 300 (2010) Slogan What's happening? Website twitter.com Alexa rank ▲ 9 (October 2010) Type of site mobile social network service,microblogging Registration Required Users 190 million (visitors monthly) Available in Multilingual
English, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, and ItalianLaunched July 15, 2006 Current status Active
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