Categories: Social Media

What You Didn’t Know About Twitter

Some of us are truly fanatically obsessed with stats. I am one of them and I get happy as a kid when I think of something that could make my own sites, including Minervity.com and BitRebels.com, a bit more…statistically glorified and modified. I’ve been on the lookout to see if I can find some resources that handles Twitter statistics and I’ve found some interesting places for us geeks to check out.

Twitter Overall Tweet Counter – GigaTweet

Number of People Working at Twitter: 52 – (2009-06-12)

Twitter – Short Story

Twitter was initially founded initially by “Obvious“, a creative environment in San Francisco, California. The very first software prototype of Twitter was created in March 2006Â and took only 2 weeks to complete. The service was launched publicly in August 2006. In May,2007 the service had grown large and it was decided that it moved outside of the “Obvious” community. Twitter Incorporated was founded.

Twitter Unique Visitors Statistics

Twitter – Founders

Jack Dorsey – Software engineer Jack Dorsey is the co-founder of Twitter, and was the CEO until October 2008.

Biz Stone – Co-founder of Twitter. Biz lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife, Livia.

Evan Williams – In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees.

Richard Darell

Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek. Today this media entity welcomes more than 3.5 million unique visitors per month and is considered the go-to place for people in constant motion. As an Internet entrepreneur, he is dedicated to constantly trying to develop new ways to bring content faster and closer to the end user in a more streamlined way. His excitement for statistics has allowed him to further develop systems that continuously produce accurate and fast-paced analytics to better optimize the approach by which Bit Rebels presents news and content. His graphic design background has proven to be an important tool when designing new systems and features for Bit Rebels since the development of solid and stable code depends entirely on their structure and implemented procedures. Richard currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and directs the Bit Rebels offices in both Stockholm and Atlanta. You can reach Richard at richard@bitrebels.com