Twitter is an online news and social networking service like Facebook, LinkedIn etc where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, on the other hand unregistered users can only read them.
Users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, and has more than 25 offices around the world.
Going through the history of Twitter it was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year. Twitter service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users.On the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news also.
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