The Journey of Twitter: Inception to Evolution

  The Journey of Twitter : Inception to Evolution - A Bird's-Eye View Twitter's story is one of unexpected metamorphosis. From a platform limited to 140 characters, it's soared into a global town square, alive with news, movements, and everyda y conversations. Today, we embark on a flight path through Twitter's history, exploring its remarkable evolution. From Humble Beginnings: A World of 140 Characters Our flight path begins in 2006, when Jack Dorsey , Noah Glass , Biz Stone , and Evan Williams envisioned a platform for instant communication inspired by SMS messaging. Enter Twitter, where users could share snippets of their lives in 140 characters (later increased to 280) called "tweets." The early days were marked by challenges: what exactly was Twitter good for? With a character limit that felt restrictive, user growth remained slow . The Rise of the Hashtag and the Power of Now A pivotal moment arrived in 2007 with the introduction of the hashtag (#). Pr