Twitter Informative Speech

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Although Jack Dorsey struggled with a speech impediment as a child, making twitter, and running two companies, he overcame them through using the speech impediment as inspiration, getting help from other people, and successfully running two companies. Twitter is a message sent out to followers with 140 characters or less. When you follow a person you will be able to see their tweets. Twitter was started in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Christopher Issac Stone, and Evan Williams. By 2016, Twitter had more than 300 million monthly active users.
Jack Dorsey faced several difficulties growing up. Jack Dorsey had a speech impediment that made it difficult for him to talk to his family and his fellow students. He had trouble making friends so he stayed home a lot. He had difficulty communicating with his schoolmates. (Scott 11) This led to them not wanting to be friends with him. Because he had a speech impediment he was anti-social. This was an inspiration for the 140 character limit on Twitter. If Jack Dorsey did not have a speech impediment, Twitter would be a lot different than it is now. He might not have even ever come up with the idea for Twitter if he did not have the speech impediment. He had no friends due to his speech impediment. His only friends were his brothers. (Scott) Jack Dorsey went to Missouri University of Science and Technology. After that, he transferred to New York University. Then he dropped out of college. After Jack Dorsey dropped out of NYU, he became a

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