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Twitter – It all began just over 10 years ago. An all day brainstorming session by the board of directors at Odeo (a podcasting company) where Jack Dorsey was an undergraduate student worked. It was there that a short message service idea was born.

Twitters name at first first was twtt. It meant “a short burst of inconsequential information”.

Twitter wasn’t sure of itself in the very beginning, was it a social networking site or a microblogging system? As time went on it also become an information network as well.

Today folks still wonder what Twitter actually is. Many have struggled to learn how to use Twitter while many others have embraced it and used it in all 3 ways.