Twitter Is 10 Today, But Will It See 20?
The popular micro-blogging
platform Twitter is 10 years old today, and let all wish Twitter happy 10th
anniversary.
Well known for
the inventor of the hashtag, what
started in 2006 as an idea has today grown into multi-billion dollar company,
publicly listed in US Stock Exchange market and host millions of users with millions
of daily tweets from across the globe.
Twitter was
started in 2006 by an audio-publishing company Odeo based in San-Francisco and its first tweet was let out on
March 21 of that same year by the co-founder now chief executive Jack Dorsey
who twitted “ just setting up my Twttr”
The company
boast of more than 330million active users that send out average of 500million
daily tweets; also with about 3900 employees scattered in all 35 offices around
the world.
However
Twitter is not devoid from many challenges currently facing the micro-blogging
company and that have forced analysts suggesting that surviving another 10
years will be some sort of mammoth task ahead for Twitter.
Some of these
challenges are not limited to decline in the number of users and new signups
which have seen other social media platform like Instagram, Whatsapp, WeChat
etc. overtaken Twitter in user base.
Also it
seems that many users of Twitter today are having difficulties using the platform
or simply do not know how to play around it.
Since it was
listed in 2013 in New York stock exchange, the company’s shares have nose-dived
from $44.9 to $16 as of today.
In a bid to
brace up with the current challenges, Twitter is introducing new features and hopping
that things will turn around quickly and positively.
Once again,
happy 10 Twitter!
Twitter Is 10 Today, But Will It See 20?
Reviewed by Edwin Akwudolu
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