#tbt - #Happy 13th anniversary, Twitter!

We’ve all heard the famous line from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” : “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

Leave it to a literary genius like “The Bard” to concoct a brief statement about the value of being brief! Even he knew that minimal words can carry a maximal message.

So, too, did the creators of the mega-online messaging hit, Twitter.

It was on this date, March 21, 2006, that what would become known as the first-ever “Tweet” was sent by Jack Dorsey, the “programming wizard” whose goal was to develop a platform for easy, immediate information-sharing.*

It read : ‘just setting up my twttr.” *

Thanks to Dorsey, his then-employer Odeo, and colleagues/fellow visionaries Biz Stone, Florian Weber, Evan Williams and others like Noah Glass (who’s credited with creating the term, “twttr”), “Twitter” has become the communications Goliath we know today.*

But wait! There’s more!...

Because of Twitter, even the long-revered number sign, #, has achieved superstardom! Now popularly known as “Hashtag,” its important role is to categorize subjects on the Twitter site.

For individuals, industries and organizations like your MidPointe Library, Twitter’s become a quick, reliable platform for transmitting the latest information, photos and more to an ever-inquiring, ever-increasing audience.

Even the President of the United States is a fan!

#Congratulations, Twitter!

Sources:

* “Twitter” by Craig Ellenport. Published in 2019 by Mason Crest of Broomall, Pennsylvania, as part of the “Tech 2.0 World-Changing Social Media Companies” series. Available for check-out at MidPointe Library.

Background information provided by “Chase’s Calendar of Events.” Published by Rowman & Littlefield. Available at MidPointe Library.

Photo of Jack Dorsey from the book, “Twitter…,” by Craig Ellenport.

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