It's in 2006 that Twitter goes live: the year Google buys YouTube and moves into China, the year Facebook opens up to everyone, and the year of Google's Big Daddy Update.
So what happened? And where were you? (Really wanna know? Check these where were you Twitter tools)
2006
- Twitter launches
- People find Twitter inane
2007
- Twitter's real launch is its appearance at SXSW after which it blossoms
- a month later Twitter has 80.000 users
- Dell is one of the first big brands to start to use Twitter. By the end of 2008 they would have done $1 million in revenue via their Twitter sales alerts
- Twitter present at MTV Music Awards
- Short message services blossom and Google buys Jaiku
- Forrester calculates 6% of US adults online use Twitter. Twitter is growing so fast, people like Scoble don't even believe these stats
2008
- Small brands and businesses find ways to effectively use Twitter
- LA earthquake gets covered through Twitter first
- US Presidential elections are fought out partly on Twitter. President Obama was a social media star.
- Facebook wants to buy Twitter " Twitter says no
- Terror attack in Mumbai has Twitter as the fastest news channel.
2009
- Twitter is not just mainstream, it becomes an essential communication tool. Police and fire departments use Twitter to inform the public
- SEO's theorize that links that might not appear as links, including Twitter mentions, are signals search engines pick up on
- 14% of CEO's are on Twitter
- Oprah Winfrey joins Twitter
- Bing adds real time Twitter results
- Google adds real time Twitter results
- The Iran revolution is nicked the Twitter revolution. Was it?
2010
- We're pretty good at having figured out what works for social media marketing on Twitter
- Search engines listening to social signals becomes a fact
- Tunesia's Jasime Revolution is dubbed as another Twitter-aided revolution
- All tweets ever sent are added to the US Library of Congress
- Twitter launches redesigned web site
2011
- Revolution in Egypt. People (also) use Twitter
- For the first time in history, a social media platform and a search engine get actively involved in a revolution. Google and Twitter work together to enable Egyptians to Tweet even though the country is cut-off from the Internet.
Where Were You?
About the Author: Ruud Hein
I love helping to make web sites make it. From the ground up if needed. CSS challenges, server-side scripting, user and device friendly JavaScript tricks search engines have no problems with. Tracking how the sites perform and then figuring out how to make that performance and the tracking better.
I'm passionate about information. No matter how often I trim my feeds in my feed readers (yes, I use more than one), I always have a couple of hundred in there covering topics ranging from design to usability, from SEO to SEM, from life hacks to productivity blogs, from.... Well, you get the idea, I guess.
Knowledge and information management is close to my heart. Has to be with the amount of information I track. My "trusted system" is usually in flux but always at hand and fully searchable. My paid passion job at Search Engine People sees me applying my passions and knowledge to a wide array of problems, ones I usually experience as challenges. It's good to have you here: pleased to meet you!
