TWITTER

Twitter was created in March 2006 by [|Jack Dorsey] and launched in July of that year. Twitter rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 200 million users as of 2011,generating over 200 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion [|search queries] per day. It is sometimes described as the " [|SMS] of the [|Internet] ."
 * Twitter** is an online [|social networking] and [|microblogging] service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 [|characters], informally known as "tweets."