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Twitter is a popular social networking and internet/SMS blogging device that allows users to post and read updates of up to 140 characters of text. Each update (known as a ‘tweet’) is posted to a user’s homepage (which is usually publicly accessible) and also sent to other users (‘followers’ of the original user) who have subscribed to them. Twitter was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, working in conjunction with a company called Odeo. Twitter was ranked first for fastest-growing website in the Members Community category for February 2009 by Nielsen.com with a monthly growth of 1382%, although it was acknowledged that Twitter only had a 40% retention rate of users, meaning that only 40% of users continue using Twitter after a month has passed since initial signup.

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According to Compete.com, Twitter is the world’s third most used social network and as of late June 2009, Alexa Internet Inc. ranks the site 36th in terms of overall web traffic
The aftermath of the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections were closely followed by those in the Western world, in part due to Twitter updates from ordinary people on the ground, since many Western news outlets had been restricted from broadcasting by the Iranian government
American celebrity Ashton Kutcher is the most followed person on Twitter.com, and was the first person to reach one million followers (beating out closest contender – the Central News Network (CNN))
The American Red Cross uses Twitter to exchange up-to-the-minute information regarding local disasters, including directions and statistics
A picture of US Airways Flight 1549 that was forced to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River in New York (January 2009) was taken and posted online on Twitter long before any official media arrived on the scene.
Twitter was used in space of the first time in May 2009 when astronaut Michael Massimino used the service to keep updates of the mission to repair Hubble Space Telescope

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