Twitter Draft One
From DigitalRhetoricCollaborative
Twitter is a micro-blogging platform utilized by 288 million active users a month.[1] The "tweets" allow users 140 characters per post for optimal mobile readability.[2] Twitter, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.[3] The company is responsible for the creation of the hashtag via a tweet by Chris Messina in August 2007.[4] A platform combining social networking and news, Twitter's mission is "to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers."[5] Compared to other websites, Twitter ranks eighth in the United States and eighth globally.[6]
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