{"id":14459,"date":"2016-03-21T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/?p=14459"},"modified":"2016-03-21T23:09:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T22:09:07","slug":"twitter-a-decade-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/twitter-a-decade-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter a decade on &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Twitter_logo_white.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14462\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Twitter_logo_white.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter_logo_white\" width=\"850\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Twitter_logo_white.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Twitter_logo_white-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Twitter_logo_white-768x320.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We look back at which\u00a0car companies were first to embrace twitter writes Geraldine Herbert<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On March 21, 2006 Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet and ten years on some 500 million tweets are sent out each day, adding up to close to 200 billion per year. However Twitter is only number three in the social network charts and trails behind Facebook (1.5 billion) and Facebook-owned Instagram (400 million).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate ten years we look back on the first car manufactures to embrace life in 140 characters &#8211; Only one major car company, Ford, tweeted back in 2008 with another seven joining twitter in 2009. The rest have all followed over the past six years<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tw_hisotry_main1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14460\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tw_hisotry_main1.jpg\" alt=\"tw_hisotry_main1\" width=\"850\" height=\"2350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tw_hisotry_main1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tw_hisotry_main1-109x300.jpg 109w, https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tw_hisotry_main1-768x2123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tw_hisotry_main1-370x1024.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geraldine Herbert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>21st March, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.4pt; background: white;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look back at which\u00a0car companies were first to embrace twitter writes Geraldine Herbert On March 21, 2006 Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet and ten years on some 500 million tweets are sent out each day, adding up to close to 200 billion per year. 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