Gadgetory

hashtag happy birthday twitter is 10 years old but the twitter concept goes back even further co-founder Jack Dorsey came up with the idea back in the you two thousand on this sketch pad he was using livejournal to blog about life in the universe and everything but wanted a quicker way to post short updates kind of like a microblog the twitter egg was hatched Dorsey sent out the very first tweet on March 21 2006 in 2007 the hashtag made its debut to group together discussions on the same topic the milestones soon followed twitter is used to spread breaking news about world events like the Arab Spring retweet records broke thanks to celebrity selfies at the Oscars but recently things haven't been as turkey at Twitter users were in uproars the company changed the timeline algorithm to a non chronological model it was suggested that the 140 character limit may be lifted but that idea was abandoned by Dorsey in a recent interview twitter also reported that it had zero growth in monthly active users at the end of 2015 as a result stock prices have been shaky in 2013 the IPO price is twenty-six dollars in 2015 that drops to $22 and now prices hover at 16 so how does a social network reverse its fortunes well if there's one thing we know for sure we'll find out on Twitter