Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006) by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.
The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third-party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks.
The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo.
In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage.
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What is Twicco?Twicco.jp is a group and community feature for Twitter (currently available only in Japan).
How to Tweet Your RSS Feed?If you want to have an RSS feed automatically tweeted to your Twitter account as it is published you can use a service called TwitterFeed to do this. It allows you to customise how often to post on your behalf.
Can I Organize Twitter Followers?You can not organize your twitter followers from Twitter. There is a utility called CrowdStatus that allows you to categorize your Twitter followers into crowds so you could have a crowd for work colleagues, another for family and so on.
How to Setup Twitter Notifications?It's always nice to know when people are talking about you. On the web and in the blogosphere you can setup a Google alert but that does not cover Twitter.
How do you get twitter followers?There are lots of ways. First of all if you have a web presence such as a website or blog, make sure you advertise your Twitter profile prominently.
Can I Change My Twitter Username?If you need to change your Twitter username, you can do so by visiting your Twitter account Settings page and entering a new username in the Username box. Keep in mind, a Twitter username can only be 15 characters in length and cannot contain spaces.
How many people are on Twitter?One reliable source for the number of Twitter users is Twitdir. TwitDir is a Twitter users (some call them twitter’ers) directory.
