Twitter

Twitter was founded in 2006, a number of young entrepreneurs who worked for the company Podcasts Odeo, Inc., San Francisco, USA, were immersed in a full day of brainstorming ideas.
The company Odeo Inc., had just made a great contribution to the code of Rails 1.0 and had taken Odeo Studio, but were facing strong competition from Apple and others. As they were forced to reinvent itself.
In the context of these meetings, Jack Dorsey proposed an idea in which SMS could be used to tell a small group which was a doing. It was an idea to keep informed a group of people on what was a doing.

Once the project tested several names. The original name for a time was "Status" (Stat.us) through twitch (twitch) due to vibrations of the type of phones, but they stayed with Twitter. In the words of Dorsey was perfect, and the definition was "a short burst of irrelevant information," the "principle of a bird," which in English is tweet.
If you receive many messages are "twitterpated."

To operate the SMS needed a five-digit short code. Attempts to pull out and leave you with twttr voice, but unfortunately Teen People had the same code with txttp (Text TP). So I decided to get a code that is easy to remember. Chose to 40404.

Twitter is written in Ruby on Rails, has an open API that lets you integrate Twitter both web applications as desktop and mobile applications, and its main features are the requirement, transmission or exchange of views of live events.

The first message was sent by twitter Dorsey at 12:50 on 21 March 2006 and said "just setting up my twttr" (only adjusting my twttr).

The same prototype was used between Odeo employees as an internal service. It was released to the public in July 2006.

Twitter broke the public in 2007 and went from 20.000 to 60.000 daily tweet. The service quickly began to gain currency and in March 2007 won the South by Souhwest Award in the category blog