In celebration of its 5th anniversary, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on Monday announced the company now serves almost 1 billion tweets per week, part of his plan to share facts about the organization's history and growth over the next couple of weeks.
"I've been digging through all my drawings, emails, & notes from around that time. I'll share them over the next 2 weeks right here on #twttr," Dorsey tweeted.
By comparison, it took three years, two months, and one day for Twitter to grow from its first to its 1 billionth tweet, according to the company.
On March 21, 2006, Dorsey -- @jack -- sent the first tweet: "inviting coworkers."
As the world now knows, more than Twitter employees responded. On March 12, 2011, alone, 572,000 new Twitter accounts were created, wrote Carolyn Penner of Twitter's communications department, in a company blog. On average, there are an average of 460,000 new accounts created each day, she wrote. In addition, there was a 182% increase in mobile users over the past year, Penner said.
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