Twitter

Who owns the site?

Jack Dorsey

What other internet sites do they own?

Square, an electronic payment service for iPhone, iPad and android phones to use at any time

What is its revenue?

Twitter: According to Wikipedia, $140 million, Ad revenue $150 million

What is its market revenue?

$4 billion

5 key facts about the institution

·         200 million users

·         Closed corporation

·         50 million tweets being sent each day

·         Free

·         One of the ten most visited websites in the world

Wikipedia articles

Outrageous tweets: a short history

·         Kanye West tweet was uncensored, themed around abortions which encouraged Lilly Allen who has had 2 miscarriages to tweet “never has a tweet put me in such a bad mood”

·         Perez Hilton posted a link onto twitter of a picture of Miley Cyrus aged 17 at the time, supposedly naked.

·         Jim Carey’s tweet “No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity” about Tiger Woods wife and referred to Elin Noregren’s wife as a “willing participate”

·         Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a video of himself brandishing a huge hunting knife mocking the states severe budget crisis

·         Sarah Palins response to a mosque being built two blocks from ground zero was a plea “perfect Muslims, pls refundiate” the oxford American dictionary then put refudiate in their dictionary naming it word of the year in 2010

“Stop tweeting!” Medvedev tells top politicians at meeting

·         Russian politicians apparently became addicted to tweeting

·         The president himself had caught his politicians during a meeting, tweeting in the middle of a state council session.

·         Nikita Belykh who was caught by the president had posted more than a dozen tweets during the first hour commenting on his colleagues statements and sharing details with his followers

·         However, tweeting continued with everyone else joining in on twitter and even the president himself