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title: "How Twitter Started"
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date: 2016-12-31
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# How Twitter Started

**Published:** December 31, 2016
**Author:** sharetalk
**Categories:** Learning and Investing
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Twitter is an unusual no-longer-startup that made an impact, signed up users, but is still not profitable. Why would a company with 300 Million users not be able to make enough money to continue on its own?

![how-twitter-started-infographic](http://fundersandfounders.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/how-twitter-started-infographic.png)

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The answer might lie in the complicated history of how Twitter started — the many times it’s changed its CEO and tried to define what it was. In this infographic, I trace the history of Twitter from before it started, with Jack Dorsey, one of its co-founders and, perhaps, the only visionary.

Most facts in this infographic came from this article in The New Yorker.

##### Written by** [Anna Vital](http://fundersandfounders.com/author/anna-vital/)**

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