The history of Twitter begins in 2006, when it was created by the co-founders Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. Initially developed as a side project at the company Odeo—a podcasting company—the idea was to create an text message-based communication platform. Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet on March 21st, 2006, saying ‘just setting up my twttr’. https://todayshistory.org/21-march-2006/3941/