Microblogging (Twitter)
- Date
- 2006 · confidence high
- Place
- Odeo/Twitter, San Francisco, California, United States
- Credited to
- Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Noah Glass
- People
- 👤 Biz Stone1974–👤 Evan Williams1972–👤 Jack Dorsey1976–👤 Noah Glass1981–
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Service for public 140-character messages with followers, hashtags and retweets. It became the real-time public square for journalists, politicians and social movements.
What it led to
- Real-time politics and direct communication from leaders
- Virality, hashtag campaigns and online harassment
- The debate over moderation and free speech on private platforms
Built on
Made possible
- hashtag
- real-time journalism