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Vartika Manasvi · · 2 min readTwitter turns 10 today. Here are the first Tweets of 10 Asian unicorn startups.
Born as ‘twttr’ ten years ago today, Twitter has since marched on with the internet culture with hashtags and RTs. So much has changed over the last decade!
The first tweet was sent on March 21, 2006, by Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter. Initially, it took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to reach the billionth tweet. Today, it takes less than two days for one billion tweets to be sent.
So, Dorsey is this kind of billionaire, rich in the number of tweets.
It’s been ten years since the first ever tweet was sent. Here are the first tweets of 10 Asian unicorn startups.
Flipkart, India’s biggest homegrown ecommerce site
Hi earthlings, I am Flipkart.com. I am a website, I speak English and I know a lot about Books that you all read.
— Flipkart (@Flipkart) July 22, 2009
Snapdeal, arch-rival of Flipkart and Amazon in India
SnapDeal, the daily hot deal website is launching soon. Subscribe for the hottest offer in ur city & get discounts often exceeding 50%
— Snapdeal (@snapdeal) January 30, 2010
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