March 21st

On this day - March 21st 2006 - Twitter is founded 

Twitter is the social media service where you share your 140 character messages called tweets. Tweets are then sorted by the hashtags used for example #TwitterHistory. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass the service launched in July 2006 but was founded on this day. In 2013 Twitter was one of the ten most visited sites on the internet and it is described as the sms of the internet. There are more than 500 million registered users where 332 million are considered active as of May 2015. Twitter has attracted users from all walks of life from world leaders such as Barack Obama to Queen Elizabeth II to the normal person in the street. The oldest Twitter accounts all belong to Twitter employees they were created on this day.