12 tweets that changed the world

Love my #beliebers. #giveback #alsicebucketchallenge http:// www.alsa.org/fight-als/ ice-bucket-challenge.html … #make achange” – Justin Bieber (@jusjustinbieber) AuguAugust 17, 2014 The IIce Bucket Challenge Cha saw users use upload videos vide of ice wat water being pou poured on the them, raising £88.6million for the Motor Ne Neurone D Disease A Association

#BlackLives Matter – Alicia Garza (@aliciagarza) (Hashtag first used on Twitter) ) July 13, 2013 The hashtag, inspired by activist t Garza, went viral on Twitter after George Zimmerman was cleared of murdering unarmed black 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida

Twitter celebrates its 12th birthday this week and what began life as a site for friends to “bounce random thoughts around” has become an internet giant – with the potential to change society and history.

The fledgling website e had an average of just t 224 tweets a day when it star ted out but now no has a whopping 336million 33 active users across ac the globe, who upload up 500m i l l ion tweets a dday.

Twitter’s creators told how they th chose the messaging site’s si name because: “The definition de was ‘a short burst of inconsequential in information’ and an ‘chirps from birds’. And

If onlyl BBradley’sdl’ arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars” – Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014 The selfie by chat show host Ellen De Generes ppacked with film stars went

viral in minutes that’s exactly what the product was…” But the social media site has grown its wings over the last 12 years to become anything but “inconsequential”, with the ability to harness public power anand trigger change – one hhashtag at a time. Since its public launch in July 2006 by US creators JacJack Dorsey, Noah Glass, BiBiz Stone and Evan Wi l l iams, Twitter has becbecome a platform for bbreakingki news, used by A-listers a nd wo r l d leaders to reach the public in a matter of moments. We’ve rounded up 12 tweets that changed # history – and helped Twitter explode into a hub of era-defining content. broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don’t have the words. – Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) May 23, 2017 The platform enabled the pop star to express her heartache to her 57million followers in a single tweet the th day after the terror te attack at her Manchester concert