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everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm Cena kaam karo tsuboi joined by senior writer daniel Terdiman and today Daniel is working on an interesting story about Twitter and its origins and the Twitter folks held an off-site today and one of the tweets to come out of that meeting was the fact that Twitter was essentially created in two weeks right clarify and explain that so Jack Dorsey who was the person actually built Twitter originally and as you know credited with being a co founder of twitter was at this sales conference today and was being interviewed on stage and apparently he said from what was tweeted out from the conference that twitter was built in two weeks and it was originally built just for SMS so two weeks for something that's really kind of taken the world by storm what were the original what was the original twitter platform like vaganova yeah the idea was for people to be able to send messages to each other and you know through mobile devices and the reason you know everybody everybody always says that the reason that you know tweets have to be 140 characters is because there was a limit of ability 160 characters for what could be sent over a text message so this whole thing was a very small project it was a side project from from the company that that Dorsey was working at and it was just meant to be this like sort of new small communications medium and I don't think anybody really ever imagined that it was going to be what it what it turned out to be absolutely i mean we obviously saw it rise to prominence in the 2008 presidential election and then here we are four years after that six years after Twitter's founding and look at what an amazing medium it is I know it really kind of set some records or really had a lot of traffic this election yeah an election day alone they said there was 31 million tweets and then you know they were putting out statistics for each of the presidential debates and like the first presidential debate there was 10 million tweets sent and I take the bulk of them had you know something about big bird in them yeah and there was let's say that during the peak on Election Day this time there was three hundred twenty-seven thousand tweets per minute that was right when the network's called the election for President Obama so the numbers were just astounding and sometimes there can be problems however when everyone is tweeting about the same thing and using the same hashtag sometimes if you're following a certain trend your browser yeah well actually you know there's there's a client called tweetdeck which twitter owns right now and it's a really good way to view tweets you can set up columns for your like your basic Twitter timeline and your @ mentions and direct messages and so forth you can also set up a column that's looking at all tweets that have a certain hash tag or keyword in them and normally that works just fine but if there's a if you're if you've got a search set up for a very popular or trending topic like say do you know hashtag debates which I did during the presidential debates what you find quickly is that there's so many tweets going so fast that it basically crashes the application and so today Twitter and said that they were had rolled out a new update to tweet deck that's meant to handle that problem and make it possible for the for the application to handle those those floods of tweets that traffic well so from a two-week experiment a little project to 500 million tweets a day it's amazing thank you so much Daniel turned my pleasure I'm Cara tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop