History of Twitter and the Twitosphere
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site, where users can share their interesting sites. For each bookmark, a user can specify one or more tags to describe the bookmark. Tags are a great way to discover interesting things on the Web.
Many Del.icio.us users have created bookmarks for Twitter, for all kinds of Twitter tools and gadgets and for blogposts and articles discussing Twitter and the Twitosphere. I traced the Twitter and Twitosphere history by retracing the first bookmark for Twitter and the most popular Twitter tools. Furthermore I added also websites (blogs and wikis) set up to publish and discuss all kinds of observations regarding Twitter and the Twitosphere. Blogposts and articles discussing Twitter, Twitter tools or the Twitosphere from various sites were not taken into account in this overview, although some of these blogposts and articles had an influential role in the rise of the popularity of Twitter. It was my intention to focus on the dedicated tools and dedicated sites.
Del.icio.us is a dynamic environment, people add bookmarks on a daily basis, for already known sites or for new sites that are launched also on a daily basis. The list is below is only a snapshot of the situation today. The first bookmark for Twitter.com was made on August 8, 2006, the last one just an hour ago.
The list contains at first sight multiple entries for the same tool. This is caused by bookmarks for slightly different URLs, e.g. with or without www.
August 2006
August 8, 2006 - Twitter : 4478 del.icio.us bookmarks
August 8, 2006 - Twitter : 174 del.icio.us bookmarks
September 2006
October 2006
October 6, 2006 - Twitter : 1655 del.icio.us bookmarks
November 2006
November 20, 2006 - Twitter Fan Wiki : 585 del.icio.us bookmarks
November 22, 2006 - Twidget : 39 del.icio.us bookmarks
December 2006
December 1, 2006 - Twitter Wordpress Sidebar Widget : 68 del.icio.us bookmarks
December 31, 2006 - Twadget : 26 del.icio.us bookmarks
January 2007
January 15, 2007 - Twitterific : 621 del.icio.us bookmarks
January 27, 2007 - Twitteroo : 218 del.icio.us bookmarks
February 2007
February 15, 2007 - Twessenger : 53 del.icio.us bookmarks
February 26, 2007 - AutoTwit : 88 del.icio.us bookmarks
February 27, 2007 - Twitterbox : 52 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 2007
March 8, 2007 - GeoTwitter : 39 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 11, 2007 - Twitterlicious : 33 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 14, 2007 - gtwitter : 52 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 14, 2007 - Twittermaps : 107 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 15, 2007 - Triqqr : 46 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 16, 2007 - Twitterbar : 91 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 16, 2007 - Twittersearch : 83 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 17, 2007 - Twittervision : 1990 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 18, 2007 - Twittervision : 833 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 19, 2007 - Twitterbuzz : 23 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 19, 2007 - Twitterholic : 235 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 20, 2007 - TweetBar : 70 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 21, 2007 - TinyTwitter : 41 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 22, 2007 - Twitterfeed : 232 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 22, 2007 - Twitthis : 272 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 22, 2007 - Twitthis : 107 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 25, 2007 - Rss2twitter : 136 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 26, 2007 - Twitter Hacks : 19 del.icio.us bookmarks
March 27, 2007 - Twitterfeed : 80 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 2007
April 2, 2007 - Tweetr : 149 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 3, 2007 - EmailTwitter : 34 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 4, 2007 - TwitterEarth : 42 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 6, 2007 - Twifter : 37 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 9, 2007 - Twitterverse : 177 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 10, 2007 - TwitterCamp : 147 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 11, 2007 - Twitterment : 186 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 12, 2007 - Twitterfacts (this blog) : 19 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 13, 2007 - Twitterati : 29 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 19, 2007 - MSNTwitter : 40 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 20, 2007 - TwittyTunes : 50 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 20, 2007 - Twitternotifier : 83 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 22, 2007 - Twittown : 44 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 26, 2007 - Twitterquotient : 14 del.icio.us bookmarks
April 28, 2007 - MoniTwitter : 92 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 2007
May 1, 2007 - Twitter.FM : 30 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 1, 2007 - TwitterLit : 63 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 2, 2007 - Twitku : 71 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 4, 2007 - Twitbin : 103 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 4, 2007 - Twitbin : 313 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 13, 2007 - 24oclocks : 143 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 18, 2007 - Twittervision 3D : 161 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 18, 2007 - TwitterLine : 32 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 19, 2007 - Twitter Reader : 66 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 23, 2007 - Tweetvolume : 147 del.icio.us bookmarks
May 24, 2007 - Twitdir : 66 del.icio.us bookmarks
June 2007
June 12, 2007 - Twittermosaic : 29 del.icio.us bookmarks
The graph below shows the complete history, from August 8, 2006 until today. For each bookmark, a column showing the total number of bookmarks appears at the date of the first bookmark. The first peak is for Twitter itself, at August 8, 2006. The second peak, on October 6, 2006 is again for Twitter (twitter.com/home). The next big peak appears at March 17, 2007 for Twittervision. All other Twitter tools bookmarked for the first time after March 18, 2007 have received less then 320 bookmarks.
If you would know other Twitter tools or sources of information regarding the Twitosphere that are not yet present in this list and for which there at least 20 bookmarks in Del.icio.us, please let me know. You can leave a comment below of mail me at twitterfacts at gmail.
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