TWITTER UPDATE

Hey Peeps! As an update to a previous Twitter post, we have found the true stats on the company. AND, You Tube has gone TwitterNuts like the rest of the globe and has added a Twitter button to their share links. Just and FYI for all of you Tweet-Happy Twitterers... and eggheads like moi. :D Also, there is an article in today's NY Times, which discusses how may celebrity twitterers are actually using ghost twitterers, but we could have guessed that. Some of them are soooo obvious. Company stats are below. Now, TwitterOn...

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks. The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo. In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage.

Milestones
6/23/08 — Hires Rudy Winnacker and John Adams, two new Operation Engineers 6
6/9/08 — Survives iPhone 3G Stevenote 7
6/9/08 — Twitter partners with Summize to cover Apple news. 8
5/28/08 — Launches a status blog to communicate to users better about issues with the service. 9
5/7/08 — Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers 10
4/24/08 — VP Lee Mighdoll Leaves Twitter 11
4/23/08 — Chief Architect Blaine Cook Leaves Twitter 12
4/22/08 — Twitter Japan Launches 13
4/16/08 — Twitter helps bust American man out of Egyptian jail 14
7/15/06 — Twitter Launches 15
3/21/06 — First Twitter 16

Article in the trunk: (or click title post)
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter