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		</div><p>Twitter marks its tenth anniversary on Monday, with the social media site having hosted some of the biggest social movements of the last 10 years – yet uncertainty still hangs over its future.</p>
<p>The site is struggling to attract new users, has seen share prices tumble and faces continued questions over how it handles abuse.</p>
<p>But it can still lay claim to some of social media’s biggest moments of the last decade.</p>
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<p>500 million tweets are now sent every day, with 200 billion posted every year and hashtags such as #JeSuisParis in the wake of the November terrorist attacks in the French capital dominating international debate online.<br />
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<p>The engagement of Prince William to Kate Middleton was also first confirmed on Twitter in 2010 in a royal first.</p>
<p>In 2008, NASA also used the site to confirm the Mars Phoenix Lander had found ice on the planet.<br />
Twitter’s Lewis Wilshere said of the site’s tenth birthday: “Whether it’s the London 2012 Olympics, the #GBBO final, the General Election or the BRIT Awards, when big events happen, they happen on Twitter. </p>
<p>The depth and breadth of content shared by our users around these big moments has made it the perfect live viewing party for the world’s biggest events.</p>
<p>“And ten years on from the first ever tweet, our birthday also gives us a great chance to reflect on those big events, but also on those Twitter users who connect in other amazing and inspiring ways, every day. </p>
<p>From @HerdyShepherd1 tweeting updates from his farm to a worldwide audience of thousands, to campaigning movements like #EverydaySexism, we remain humbled and inspired by the people who have made Twitter their own.”</p>
<p>There have also been more than 250 billion ‘likes’ of posts to site.</p>
<p>However, issues have continued to plague Twitter, particularly surrounding abuse – something one of its most prominent supporters, actor Stephen Fry cited when he quit Twitter last month.</p>
<p>He described its decline from “a secret bathing-pool in a magical glade” to a stagnant pool that is “frothy with scum, clogged with weeds and littered with broken glass, sharp rocks and slimy rubbish”, adding that he felt the site had become a “stalking ground”.</p>
<p>Despite this, Twitter still has more than 15 million users in the UK, while One Direction’s official account is the most followed UK account, with more than 27.6 million followers.</p>
<p>Uncertainty remains, however, with speculation continuing over possible plans to remove the site’s signature 140-character limit, despite calls to resist from many users.</p>
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