Interesting Facts About Twitter Microblogging Service

History of microblogging began on 1 March 2006, when the popular social network Facebook added small feature - users could write what are they doing right now. A few months later was launched a service called Twitter. In the beginning Twitter had single goal - through the exchange of short messages tell friends that you are doing now.

From a technical point of view, Twitter is simillar to IRC client and it is often referred to as SMS Service on the Internet - the length of a message is limited to 140 characters, as in a standard message SMS.

But why it is so popular now? Here is answer - seven facts, which made Twitter even more popular:

History of the collision a passenger plane with a bunch of birds in January of 2009, followed by landing into the waters of Hudson has not done without Twiter. Janis Krums, located in one of the ferries, photographed fallen plane and tweeted the image before the media arrived to the scene.

During the terrorist attack in Mumbai (India) eyewitnesses sent approximately 80 messages every 5 seconds in Twitter. 'Twittering' helped compile the list of dead and wounded. They also distributed emergency telephone and addresses of hospitals in need of blood donations .

Investigation of New Scientist technology compared Web 2.0 service with usual world media, in result was found that microblogging service is better for planning efforts in the rescue operations. For example, the Red Cross in America is already using Twitter for sharing information about local events related to the activities.

All entries in Twitter.com are indexed by search engines.

Owners of BlackBerry phones are most addicted Twitter users in the world.

In October 2008, the U.S. special services had come to see Twitter as a possible communication service for the terrorists.

In February 2009, the press Secretary of the Ukrainian president informed about opening of the official Internet profile Of President of Ukraine - Viktor Yushchenko in the social network Twitter.

At the moment is so many microblogging services out there. But they are not even close to popularity of Twitter.

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