New Delhi: Over the last few years Twitter has become one of the fastest-growing and most influential social media services, used widely by celebrities, journalists, politicians and others. The micro-blogging network has reached such a status that being popular and influential on Twitter is now considered to be a high priority for many.
A recent report suggested that Twitter may have surpassed half a billion members. In terms of active users, the microblog now apparently has 288 million active users who're making use of Twitter in the last month. That's up 40 per cent in the last 6 months alone.
Recently, a controversial performance by Miley Cyrus at the recent MTV Video Music Awards resulted in more than 300,000 tweets per minute and almost 1 million Instagram posts. These mind-boggling figures clearly indicate how much powerful and influential Twitter has become since its inception.
Although, Twitter's 200 million global users represent about one-sixth of Facebook's 1.16 billion, it still generates more news than Facebook.
Twitter's greatest appeal has always been that it allows users to see news unfold in real time. People can follow and even communicate with newsmakers. And they can see history in the making.
Let us take a look at Twitter's seven year journey from obscurity to superstardom:
Pic 1. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted his first (upside-down) picture through Twitpic on July 11, 2008. So the journey started….
