Jack Dorsey sent the first Tweet on 21 March 2006. At that time, he had no idea that his creation was set to become one of the most important and most popular social media networks in the world. Initially intended to be a microblogging platform for Dorsey and his colleagues.
Today Twitter boasts an active user base of more than 332 million, with approximately 6,000 tweets now being sent every second.
Twitter has undoubtedly changed the way people communicate online, most notably with its 140-character format that, for better or worse, urges users to be judicious with their words. The social platform has also become a...