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March 14, 2021It is March 21, 2006 when Jack Dorsey, a young developer, wrote his first twitter: a few characters like a text message.

This is how twitter made its debut, born for quick communications on the ashes of Odeo, a system for publishing audio or video messages on the web via telephone.

The inventor Noah Glass (who he later abandons) works with Evan Williams (ex google), the web designer Jack Dorsey and the engineer Blaine Cook.



Fifteen years have passed and Dorsey is now CEO of the company, auctioning that tweet and certifying it through the blokchain.

The price has exceeded 2.5 million dollars;

the auction ends on March 21 and the proceeds will go to charity.

At the beginning, the Techcrunch blog, used in San Francisco to give the news of an earthquake, launched the social network.

From there, twitter flies, in a year the amount of tweets triples and from a user, Chris Messina, who then went to Uber, comes the suggestion of the hashtag hashtag symbol.

The first hashtag was used on twitter on August 23, 2007.



The other novelty for the platform comes in 2017 when it doubles the current characters from 140 to 280.

During these 15 years, twitter has documented through its many users the experience of these years in its historical junctions.

To give examples, in 2009 the revolt in Iran and then the Arab Spring, in 2010 the earthquake in Haiti, in 2011 the capture of Osama Bin Laden.

Then the American election in 2016 that leads to the election of Trump and the outbreak of Russiagate.



Problems such as hate speech messages and fake news also arise.

Issues that twitter tries to stem and launches birdwatching, an active vigilance method to identify and report tweets with false information.

After the 2020 US elections, the social network bans Trump.



Another challenge that the social media has to face is the disinformation on the vaccines for the covid with a label to the tweets considered "misleading" and the fifth tweet unfounded is triggered by the permanent ban for the user.



Today twitter looks to the future: it aims at 315 million active users per day and doubling its annual revenue by 2023. We therefore think of a paid service: it will be called super follows and with a monthly subscription of about $ 5 will be able to access the contents of some profiles, such as those of creators and newspapers.

and he also wants to steal clubhouse space.

In fact, in April it will make the audio spaces chat function available to all users.

Also in this case the audio spaces will be included in a project that will allow users to monetize with their content.



finally, twitter also wants to get its hands on the business of streaming music.

Through square, a financial services and 'mobile' payment company, Dorsey bought the majority of Tidal, the company of Jay-Z, rapper, producer and Beyonce's husband.