Twiter (from English twit — to “chirp,”stir”) — an Internet site representing system of microblogs, allowing users to send short text notes (to 140 symbols), using the web interface, SMS, services of instant messages or foreign programs-clients.
Founders of Tvittera — Jack Dorsi (English Jack Dorsey), Biz Stone (English Biz Stone) and Evan Williams (English Evan Williams). The Original project reflected as possibility to answer a unique question: «That you now do?». Дорси wished to create a certain platform which would allow it to exchange constantly with friends short messages [2]. Messages in Tvittere are displayed at once on page of the user, and can be instantly delivered other users who are signed on their reception. Delivery can occur through a site of Tvitter, service of instant messages, SMS, RSS, e-mail or through the Twitter-client.
Service of Tvitter is constructed on web platform Ruby on Rails, and within 2007 functioned 98 % of time (approximately 6 days service was inaccessible to users). Such periods of the compelled idle time accompanied by prompts with firm твиттерской by a birdie, have given a theme for many cartoons in Networks (example), on a theme of change of a platform for микроблоггингa. In the beginning of 2008 service has been transferred on servers Amazon S3 that has led to appreciable stabilisation of its work.