The year 2009 will be long remembered for the super hyped service Twitter. It made to the news every day with controversy and with lots of criticism. But along with it, Twitter became a part of our life, though 2009 didn’t see any business models for Twitter, we hope 2010 will bring a better day. Here are the top twitter events which made to news in 2009. The news has been ordered in chronological order.

Jan

New York plane crash: Twitter breaks the news, again

The year started with a blast when within minutes of US Airways flight 1549 ditching in New York’s Hudson river, the blogosphere was buzzing with the news, Emails, Twitter messages, mobile phone photos and hazy videos about the crash flitted across cyberspace. Some reassured friends and loved ones that all was well; others simply documented the unfolding drama as all 155 passengers and crew made their way to safety using the jet’s inflatable emergency chutes. Read More

Twitter Overtakes Digg in Popularity

Putting your thoughts in 140 characters and sharing them with the world is shaping up to be more popular than “digging” your favorite news. According to new market share numbers from Hitwise, Twitter, the popular microblogging service, is now more popular than Digg’s social news aggregation service. Hitwise compared the sites in a report released Tuesday and bases the market share ranking by page views. Read More

Feb

Twitter helps recovery of Lance Armstrong’s stolen bicycle

Armstrong alerted his 140,000 Twitter followers to the theft on Sunday, and four days later police in Sacremento, California took receipt of the Trek bicycle. “They recovered the bike!” Armstrong said on Twitter . “Don’t have details yet but it’s apparently on it’s way here. Thanks to the Sacramento P D for the help!” Read More

Twitter Raises $35 Million From Venture Investors

Beside many doubts about the business model of Twitter, venture-capital investors poured an additional $35 million into Twitter Inc. Read More

Mar

Aniston dumps Mayer because of Twitter

Like many other celebrities, John Mayer also joined the bandwagon of using Twitter. But he had to bear a huge cost for it. Actress Jennifer Aniston, who was at that time a girl friend of John, dumped him as he was apparently Twittering too much. Read More

Google CEO says Twitter is a Waste of Time

So it was the time for big tech players to make their statement about Twitter. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the crowd at the Morgan Stanley Technology conference in San Francisco Tuesday that Twitter is a “poor man’s e-mail system.” Read More

April

Nettlesome Computer Program Torments Twitter

The attacks of the hackers soon followed Twitter’s fame. The nettlesome program, known as a worm, targeted Twitter’s network. The worm was set up to promote a Twitter knockoff, StalkDaily.com. It displayed unwanted messages on infected Twitter accounts, urging people to visit the Web site. Read More

Swine Flu: Twitter’s Power To Misinform

2009 also saw the rise of Swine Flu which traumatised the whole world. Twitter, despite its reputation as a news breaker turned out as a black sheep and acted as a catalyst in facilitating an unnecessary global panic about swine flu. Read More

May

Twitter announces deals with Microsoft and Google on same day

since the begining everyone had a doubt that Twitter would be either bought by Google or Microsoft but no such thing happened. Twitter was certainly not for sale but enjoyed every form of partnership. On early may. Twitter annouched its deal with both Microsoft and Google yesterday. Read More

First Twitter Message From Space Sent

Astronaut Mike Massimino has boldly gone where no man has gone before: He sent the first Twitter message from space. Read More

Jun

Iranians turn to Twitter as censors clamp down

As Iran’s government cracks down on traditional media outlets in the aftermath of the country’s disputed presidential election, tech-savvy Iranians have evaded censors and used the microblogging site Twitter to organise and spread information. Read More

China To Netizens: Shut Up

Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, China blocked instant message platform twitter.com, email provider Hotmail, and photo sharing web site Flickr.com, forcing many of China’s 300 million netizens to shut up. Read More

Jul

Twitter users first to break news of Jakarta bombings

Twitter users were apparently the first to report a pair of deadly bombings in Jakarta Friday morning, underlining the social media site’s growing use as a breaking news source in competition with traditional media. Read More

Michael Jackson Twitter Mania

More than 17,000 lucky fans were allowed inside the Staples Center on Tuesday to commemorate Michael Jackson. But for the millions of fans who didn’t have a ticket, Twitter served as their backstage pass to the Los Angeles memorial service for the King of Pop. Read More

Aug

‘Idol’ Judge Paula Abdul Announces Departure in Twitter Post

“American Idol” judge Paula Abdul quit the most-watched U.S. television show. Then she broke the news via Twitter with these words “With sadness in my heart, I’ve decided not to return to #IDOL.” Read More

Facebook launched Facebook Lite to rival Twitter

Facebook launched its strip down version called Facebook Lite. Some industry pundits believed Facebook is rolling out ‘Lite’ to compete more closely withTwitter’s real-time news and search capabilities. Read More

Sept

Twitter sets to Raise $100 Million, Valuing It at $1 Billion

Despite the mistrust in the service from many main stream business, Twitter was valued at $1 Billion. This raised many eye brows in the tech community. Read More

New Twitter TOS Opens Door For Twitter Pro

Twitter rolled out its new TOS with a number of tweaks. Twitter established unequivocally that tweets belong to the tweeter and that Twitter does not own them. The TOS also fine tunes the language about spam and acceptable use, and expands on the use of API’s by third party developers to access Twitter services. Oh! And Twitter reserves the right to distribute advertising. Read More

Oct

Microsoft Strikes Search Deals With Twitter, Facebook

Microsoft reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members’ public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine. Read More

Nov

Twitter crowned top word of 2009

The Global Language Monitor announced Twitter as the Top Word of 2009 in its annual global survey of the English language. Read More

Twitter Peek, device made for only Twitter

A new dedicated device was launched in the United States which gave user access to their Twitter stream on the move. This radical devices was immediately critizes for its uncanny business model. Read More

Dec

Google’s new real time search adds Twitter-Facebook-MySpace feeds

Google added real time results to its Internet search engine on Monday, channeling feeds from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other fresh content into responses to queries Read More

Dell Proves That Twitter Can Be Profitable

Computer maker has raked in $6.5 million from its Twitter accounts. Read More

So the journey of Twitter for 2009 shows lost of ups and downs and we hope 2010 will bring new faces of Twitter with new business potentials and help leverage the social media community. All of the above news has been taken with respect to relevance, if there is any missing news do comment on it.

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