Look at You Twitter, all grown up!

 Twitter celebrated it's 5th birthday, not a big stretch in human years but in tech years, quite an achievement.Twitter's first ever Tweet was, fittingly, from Jack Dorsey, one of the creators of Twitter. It was a fairly humble message - no great fuss, just this simple status update:Twitter's achievement to date is amazing considering their service hasn't been monetized until only recently. Here's a quick run-down of the major milestones in their journey so far:11th November 2008: Twitter took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to hit one billion tweets17th April 2009: Twitter journey into the mainstream when, CNN went head to head against Ashton Kutcher, in a race to reach one million followers14th June 2009: Twitter became a legitimate reporting tool, when it captured the first photos of the iranian protest before mainstream media even picked up on itMarch 2011: Twitter is reported to have 500, 000 accounts and growingNovember 2010: When Twitter implemented promoted trends, which was their first of many monetizing strategy roll out As smartphones saturate more of the global market, Twitter is coming into its own. The latest stats coming out of  Twitter HQ report 46% of users are accessing the platform from their mobile, that amounts to approx 182% growth in mobile over the last year.In celebration of this achievement by the team at Twitter, I've compiled a list of articles we've posted about the platform over the past year.Thanks Twitter  for keeping us busy in the last few years, here's to many more!

1. Twitter's down, so what to do ?
2. If you die, what happens to your Twitter account ?
3. Twitter the king of Braking News
4. Twitter expects to release analytics dashboard in Q4
5. New Twitter CEO means no fail whale ?
6. Twitter promoted accounts are live
7. Hashtag on Twitter: Spam or genuinely useful
8. Twitter shines through disastrous times
9. Five reason you shouldn't care about Twitter followers
10. Don't believe everything to hear or tweet
11. Adding Twitter to your toolbox - a point of view from a journalist
12. Twitter fast becoming a legitimate communication tool
13. How Egypt protesters use of Twitter

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