So a whole decade has past and one of the world’s most popular social networks turns 10 today! With the very first tweet having been sent on March 21st, 2006, the world has changed quite a lot since then.

We should of course start with the first ever tweet, posted by co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2006, when the service was still called Twttr.

just setting up my twttr

— Jack (@jack) March 21, 2006

Other names reportedly suggested were Friendstalker and Jitter.

The first tweet from the official Twitter account didn’t come for another 478 days.

working on iphones via ‘hahlo’ and ‘pocket tweets’ – fun!

— Twitter (@twitter) July 11, 2007

The president of the United States was a late comer to the service.

Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account.

— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015

He now has the 4th highest number of followers – more than any other world leader.

The award for most retweeted tweet of all time still goes to Ellen Degeneres for her famous Oscars selfie which has over 3.3M RTs!

If only Bradley’s arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscarspic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014

Katy Perry has the title of the user with the most followers with over 84 million of them!

To sum up some of the biggest events in world history (and some not so big..) Twitter have created this fantastic little montage video for us all to remember just how influential this behemoth of a social network is!

Happy birthday Twitter, heres to many more years tweets, retweets and Hearts/Likes/Loves!

Starting in 🇦🇺 on 3/21 and moving across the 🌍, we thank you for 10 incredible years.

Love, Twitter#LoveTwitterhttps://t.co/pH4WWdgK6q

— Twitter (@twitter) March 20, 2016

 

 

 

 

Article supplied by independent reviewers at: theeffect.net