While watching our class’s history of Communications Technology, I found the evolution of twitter interesting. Prior to this presentation, I wasn’t aware that the first tweet was sent out by Jack Dorsey when he stated, “Just setting up my twttr.” I found this interesting because the first tweet was posted on March 21, 2006, the same year that Google purchased Youtube for $1.65 billion in November of 2006. It is hard to believe that both Youtube and Twitter saw the beginning of their company around the same time.
While watching this presentation, I was interested in how the platform evolved and developed. I learned that the app developers bought out Odeo in 2006 and started Obvious Corp to develop the app further. I wanted to get more information on Obvious Corp, so I did some research. I found Obvious Corp’s first product as an application called Medium, similar to Quora or Tumbler. To have enough space to develop their start-up ideas, Obvious Corp leased a 75,000-square-foot office in San Francisco on market street. One aspect of Twitter that I did not hear about in the presentation was the name change Twitter had. Twitter was originally named Twttr but was changed in July 2006.
In conclusion, after watching the presentation on Twitter, I was pleasantly surprised to see similarities in the dates of creation shared by youtube. The presentation shows that Twitter has grown tremendously since its start-up and will continue to evolve and change to fit our society.
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