Brice Cheddarn Development

Twitter recently launched a new Follow Button, enabling users to subscribe to the Twitter feeds of companies and individuals directly from their websites.  Users are still be able to preview Twitter profiles before opting to follow them by clicking the username next to the button.  

Before this new button, bloggers and developers had to redirect users to their accounts on Twitter before they could opt to follow.  Now users can subscribe with a single click

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It's hard to believe that Twitter, one of the most popular social media sites thriving on the web, is already five years old.  Thinking of social media in dog years, Twitter would be around 35 years old which is actually close to the median age of the average tweeter.

The initital "tweet" was sent on March 21, 2006 by co-founder Jack Dorsey.  The company officially launched the website on July 15, 2006. 

Last month, people tweeted an average of 140 million tweets per day.  It took three years for Twitter to gain a billion tweets, but now almost 200 million users post that number every week.  As a result of it's increasing popularity, the company's valuation to approximately $3.7 billion.

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