{"id":46230,"date":"2012-03-22T09:42:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T07:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46230"},"modified":"2012-03-22T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T07:43:38","slug":"twitter-turns-6-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/46230-twitter-turns-6-years-old.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter turns 6 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media service <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359584-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> turned 6 on Wednesday (21 March), and celebrated by releasing up-to-date user statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter co-founder <a title=\"Jack Dorsey\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/415012-Jack-Dorsey\">Jack Dorsey<\/a> launched the service with his first post on 21 March 2008, saying \u201cjust setting up my Twttr.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The service grew rapidly and now boasts a user base of 532 million accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Used for everything from sharing mundane details of everyday life, to organising mass protests and revolutions, the service now plays a key role in the way information is shared on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced on its blog that it is now home to over 140 million active users who post an average of 340 million tweets per day.<\/p>\n<p>This is marginally down from the 350 million daily tweets posted shortly after Twitter\u2019s 5<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/03\/21\/twitter-turns-six-140-million-active-users-340-billion-tweets-per-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular social media service has been tweeting for more than 6 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7407,405],"class_list":["post-46230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-jack-dorsey","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46232,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230\/revisions\/46232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}