On March 20, 2016, Twitter celebrated it’s 10th birthday. Jack Dorsey co-founded the social media phenomenon. Now, he’s leading the celebration on the company blog.
Ten years ago, Jack Dorsey himself sent the first tweet, “just setting up my twttr”. ?He’s invited any and all to celebrate the decade of hashtag social media. Nobody can deny the impact Twitter has had on society and language. The maximum amount of letters allowed in a tweet is 140. Over the years, people have gotten really good with communicating a strong word in a short message. We can know what our favorite celebs are thinking and doing. And who doesn’t love hearing mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel? ?In the last 10 years, a lot has happened in our world. Twitter was one of the social media sites used to broadcast such news. Take last year, the terrorist attacks in Paris. It was the tweets of regular people that first broke the news. So in some ways, Twitter is our Walter Cronkite (I apologize to journalism purist who are offended by that last sentence). Twitter had a slow start. It was founded in 2006, but didn’t really take off publicly until 2008 or 2009. The last few years haven’t been kind to Twitter either. Stocks have hit new lows. Employees and managers have been leaving by the truckloads. Some investors consider pulling out of Twitter. Dorsey runs payment processing company Square as well as Twitter. This forces him to work often times 18 hours a day.
First off, when someone is working 18 hours a day and running two major, major companies, you’re doing too much. I praise Jack Dorsey for giving the world Twitter and Square. Both have changed our lives forever. But Jack Dorsey is just one human being. He can only do so much. If I were to give Dorsey advise, it would be to hire good VPs to help you run these organizations, someone who you can trust and someone who will get the job done. Get some rest and celebrate what you’ve created. So we at Computer Geeks say Happy Birthday Twitter! What was your favorite all-time tweet?