Which came first, Instagram or Twitter?
Which came first, Instagram or Twitter?
Twitter
2006 — 4 years before Instagram
Twitter came first, by 4 years. Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet.
Side by side
| Year | 2010 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|
| Date | 2010-10-06 | 2006-03-21 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The app launched on iOS. | Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet. |
Instagram launched in October 2010 as an iPhone-only app and took 25,000 users on its first day. Facebook bought it in April 2012 for about $1 billion when it had thirteen employees and no revenue. It is four years younger than Twitter and six years older than TikTok.
The first tweet — "just setting up my twttr" — went out on 21 March 2006, and the service opened publicly that July. The 140-character limit came from SMS: a text message allows 160 characters and 20 were reserved for the username. When the limit doubled to 280 in 2017 the SMS constraint had been irrelevant for years.
Common questions
- Which came first, Instagram or Twitter?
- Twitter, by 4 years — 2006 against 2010.
- When did Instagram start?
- 2010. The app launched on iOS.
- When did Twitter start?
- 2006. Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet.
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Sources
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