Which came first, the iPhone or Twitter?
Which came first, the iPhone or Twitter?
Twitter
2006 — one year before the iPhone
Twitter came first, by one year. Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet.
Side by side
| the iPhone | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2007 | 2006 |
| Date | 2007-06-29 | 2006-03-21 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. | Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet. |
the iPhone
Announced on 9 January 2007 and on sale from 29 June, the first iPhone had no app store, no copy and paste, no 3G and no video recording. The App Store arrived over a year later in July 2008. Android Inc. had been founded in 2003, four years before the iPhone, but the first Android phone shipped fifteen months after it.
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, the iPhone or Twitter?
- Twitter, by one year — 2006 against 2007.
- When did the iPhone start?
- 2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.
- When did Twitter start?
- 2006. Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet.
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Sources
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