HAPPY BIRTHDAY #TWITTER #5yrs . Now is #edtech20 #gr8twitter who revolutionize the concept of Global Sharing and Worldwide Collaboration . Strawberry Cake for all my followers from @web20education

Twitter is the best web 2.0 microblogging tool for sharing using social media In only 140 character twitter bring a new dimenssion for global  collaboration using new technologies . Click on the photos to follow #5yrs#twitter stream

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages and it is also an online tool that lets you write brief text updates – tweets  .

 Twitter is the best microblogging tool for sharing using social media in nowadays education . In only 140 characters twitter revolutionize the concept of global sharing  and worldwide collaboration . Twitter  has  thousounds of tools and applications who make from twitter numer 1 web 2.0 tool for sharing around the world and for this reason teachers and students must learn how to use it in a safety way 

I include twitter in the best #edtools to build a PLN read more here 

 I give a strawberry cake for my twitter followers :)

Now let's see more informations about twitter 
Amazingly, it's five years ago today that the first tweet was sent and twitter have a Tiny team .  Over these years, Twitter has matured and made an impact in the areas of social responsibility, politics, sports, media, and more. The people who use Twitter have made it what it is today, and on our fifth birthday, it's the people that make Twitter special who we are celebrating.

There are now more than 400 full time employees working at Twitter. In the last year alone we have made huge progress towards stability and performance. This work sets us up to continue innovating but it also allows us to build a profitable business on a strong foundation. We are in a position now which allows us to continue serving and delighting everyone who relies on Twitter to connect them to that which is meaningful for another five years and beyond.

Twitter users now send more than 140 million Tweets a day which adds up to a billion Tweets every 8 days—by comparison, it took 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day to reach the first billion Tweets. While it took about 18 months to sign up the first 500,000 accounts, we now see close to 500,000 accounts created every day. All of this momentum and growth often pales in comparison to a single compassionate Tweet by a caring person who wants to help someone in need.

Now let's see some twitter statistics Today, on every measure of growth and engagement, Twitter is growing at a record pace. Here are some numbers:

#tweets

• 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
• 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.
• 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
• 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
• 177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.
• 456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time).
• 6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day.

#accounts

• 572,000. Number of new accounts created on March 12, 2011.
• 460,000. Average number of new accounts per day over the last month.
• 182%. Increase in number of mobile users over the past year.

#employees

• 8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of Twitter employees in Jan 2008, Jan 2009, Jan 2010, Jan 2011 and today.

The people who use Twitter make it special because for any interest we might have, somebody is tweeting about it. We're lucky to have so many people using Twitter in so many interesting and important ways. 

Happy Birthday, Twitter—and thank you.