The Rise of Twitter

Twitter began back in 2006, as a simple way for college students to talk to each other and make plans. Today, it is a source for so much different news and information and has flourished into an incredibly popular social media website, considered the 2nd most popular to many only behind Facebook. The real question is what caused it to become so successful?

Twitter has many features that really have helped make it into a popular social media. When it first started gaining popularity, it wasn't because of the initial plan for the product. People enjoyed the short messages they could send out for others to say. It was incredibly simplistic and allowed people to easily see other posts about topics they wanted to see about. From there it continued to evolve into the incredibly popular social media platform we see today.

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There are many articles today that ask the question of what made Twitter this successful, like this one here. What truly makes Twitter this popular is because it makes it simple for users to see what other people are sending. You can follow the people you want to see tweets from and it makes it incredibly easy to find stuff that truly interests you. Due to having friends on Facebook, the majority of what you see will be from those friends, with other parts being pages you may like. Twitter also has hashtags which makes it so easy to find information on topics. With this simple access into finding topics, it makes it so easy for users to use Twitter and find what they actually want without having to go down a rabbit hole to get to it.

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