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. 

February 4th

On this day - February 4th 2004 - Facebook is founded 

Love it or hate it; today Facebook celebrates 11 years since its foundation. Initially, the first social site that founder Mark Zuckerberg built at Harvard was Facemash, a page where two photos were pulled up and the user would choose the "hotter" person. The site used hacked images from Harvards private dormitory ID images and was quickly reported to the Harvard administration. The page managed 450 visitors and over 22000 photo views in the first 4 hours. On February 4th 2004 Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook". Six days after the launch three Harvard students came forward claiming Zuckerberg mislead them into believing that he would help them build their own social network site called the Harvard Connection. In 2008 they settled a lawsuit against Zuckerberg for 1.2 million shares of the company (300 million USD at the time). Initially Facebook was limited to registered students at Harvard but expanded to other colleges and later the entire world. Facebook have had some controversies, but it is the biggest social network on the web. You can like Facebook or not but you cannot deny that it has changed the world and how we communicate and connect with each other. 

Facebook has changed since one of the first versions