Jack Dorsey Credits Journalists With Twitter's Rise

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square, Chairman of Twitter and a founder of both ,holds an event in London on November 20, 2014, where he announced the launch of Square Register mobile application. The app, which is available on Apple and Android devises, will allow merchants to track sales, inventories and other data on smartphones and tablets. AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square, Chairman of Twitter and a founder of both ,holds an event in London on November 20, 2014, where he announced the launch of Square Register mobile application. The app, which is available on Apple and Android devises, will allow merchants to track sales, inventories and other data on smartphones and tablets. AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Journalists use Twitter -- a lot. For that, co-founder Jack Dorsey is grateful.

In a storm of tweets, Dorsey celebrated the social network’s ninth birthday on Saturday by thanking the reporters and editors who helped turn the site from a stream of 140-character updates to a river of news and commentary.

The final shoutout to Om Malik, who founded the venerable tech site GigaOm, is bittersweet. GigaOm suddenly stopped publishing earlier this month after investors, having failed to sell the company, cut off funding for the site.

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