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'''Twitter, Inc.''' is a social networking tool, free microblogging [[website]] co-founded by [[Jack Dorsey]]. ''Twitter'' is a privately funded startup established by Obvious.com in [[San Francisco]], March 21, 2006. <ref>[http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/ Happy Birthday Twitter!] Mashable</ref> <ref>[http://cellphones.about.com/od/textmessaging/a/twittertexting.htm Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool, About.com, August 16, 2008]</ref> Twitter is a new kind of technology that uses multiple methods of communication to help keep you in touch with people to find out what's happening right now. More than half of all Twitter users connect with the service via their cell phones. As a simple messaging tool, the website states:
'''Twitter, Inc.''' described as a social networking tool and has rapidly emerged as a new medium of online [[news]] distribution. The free microblogging [[website]] of 140 characters or less was co-founded by [[Jack Dorsey]]. ''Twitter'' is a privately funded startup established by Obvious.com in [[San Francisco]], March 21, 2006. <ref>[http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/ Happy Birthday Twitter!] Mashable</ref> <ref>[http://cellphones.about.com/od/textmessaging/a/twittertexting.htm Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool, About.com, August 16, 2008]</ref> Twitter is a new kind of technology that uses multiple methods of communication to help keep you in touch with people to find out what's happening right now. More than half of all Twitter users connect with the service via their [[cell phone]]s. As a simple messaging tool, the website states:
{{cquote|Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. The result of using Twitter to stay connected with friends, relatives, and coworkers is that you have a sense of what folks are up to but you are not expected to respond to any updates unless you want to.}}
{{cquote|Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. The result of using Twitter to stay connected with friends, relatives, and coworkers is that you have a sense of what folks are up to but you are not expected to respond to any updates unless you want to.}}
per 2010 figures, they are a fast growing company with over 190 million registered users worldwide, with an average of 65 million posts, called tweets. <ref>[http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/twitter-190-million-users/ Costolo: Twitter Now Has 190 Million Users Tweeting 65 Million Times A Day, techCrunch.com, June 8, 2010]</ref> As of 2009, the major search engines integrated tweets into the search results. Twitter achieved its first profits by signing search engine contracts with Google and [[Bing]]. <ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2009/tc20091220_549879.htm Content-Search Deals Make Twitter Profitable, BusinessWeek, December 21, 2009]</ref> The company has an enormous market capitalization over one billion dollars. Twitter has rejected takeover offers worth hundreds of millions of dollars from [[Google]] and [[Facebook]]. Many celebrities and national sports figures use the popular service and anybody can follow their posts.
==About The CEO==
==About The CEO==
==Members of Congress that have Twitter accounts==
==Members of Congress that have Twitter accounts==
<ref>[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Members_of_Congress_who_Twitter Members of Congress who Twitter] Source Watch Encyclopedia</ref>
<ref>[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Members_of_Congress_who_Twitter Members of Congress who Twitter] Source Watch Encyclopedia</ref>
== References ==
== References ==