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TWITTER

Is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets" It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011, generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."

Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in New York City.

CREATION

Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. The original project code name for the service was twitter, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flicker and the five-character length of American SMS short codes. The developers initially considered "10958" as a short code, but later changed it to "40404" for "ease of use and memorability." Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST): "just setting up my twitter".

1) Is an online social networking service.

Is: verb to be

An: indefinite article

Social / online: adjetive

Networking/ service: noun

Sentence tense: Present

2) It was created in March

It: pronoun

Created: verb

In: preposition

March:noun

Sentence tense: Past

3) Generating over 300 million tweets

Generating: verb

Over: adverb

Million/ tweets: noun

And: conjunction

Sentence tense: Present continuous