Overview
Introduction
If you can fit it in 280 characters, Twitter wants to hear about it. This short-form social media platform is well known for its stances on free speech and open discourse, so it's no surprise that it looks for employees (called Tweeps) who share these values. Twitter works to give back to its Tweeps, like by matching donations and offering paid "days of rest."
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Twitter.com • Periscope • MoPub
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About the Company
Twitter is much more than a social media company. It’s a culture creator, a celebrity maker, even a virtual news source. Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone started designing Twitter using Ruby on Rails in 2006. Originally a side project to an attempted podcast platform called Odeo, Twitter was originally “Twttr” and started as a simple short message service (SMS). Jack Dorsey finished the first version of the platform and debuted it at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas in March 2007. After a successful debut and peaked interest from capital investors, Twitter Inc. was founded in April 2007.
By 2009, visitors to the burgeoning site increased 1,300 percent, and a year later, Twitter introduced “promoted tweets” as an attempt to achieve profits on the heels of major competitor Facebook. Twitter quickly ga...
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