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Happy 5th Birthday @Twitter: A look at Twitter’s growth by the numbers

Five years ago today, Twitterā€™s @Jack published the very first Tweet, the first of billions of Tweets that would eventually change the way millions of people share, learn, and communicate. While other news media (Twitter included) report that Jackā€™s first Tweet simply stated, ā€œinviting coworkersā€ ā€“ the first tweet on record by @jack actually read, ā€œjust setting up my twttr.ā€ That same Tweet was published by all employees at a time when Twitter was actually known as Twttr. In five…

RT @Twitter: New Retweet Feature Goes Live

Source: Twitter This is breaking news at the moment, therefore this post will update as new information trickles in. Twitter is making good on its recent promise to introduce new features to bring users back to Twitter.com. Similar to the way that it rolled out Lists, Twitter is incrementally releasing its new Retweet feature initially previewed in August 2009. As described by @Biz, co-founder of Twitter: Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your…