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TWITTER (TWTR)


Interesting Fact: This wildly popular social media network was almost called Friendstalker instead of Twitter.


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CEO: Jack Dorsey
Product: Social Media
Founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone & Evan Williams on March 21, 2006
Employees: 3,583
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Market Cap: $24.15 billion
YoY growth: 98%
Growth in the last ten years: -28%

It was long before Twitter became the preferred communication medium of President Donald Trump that it had changed social media (and the world) forever. This platform, where quick thought-bites are tweeted out to followers all over the world, has exploded in popularity and is seen in all sorts of media nowadays. Its growth has lulled in the past couple years, but it looks like it’s starting to make a comeback.

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