On the first day Twitter arrived on the scene in July 2006, 224 tweets were sent. Now, that number of tweets post 10 times a second and 350 billion tweets are delivered daily by the site’s more than 200 million registered users.

Even if what most people tweet is a breakfast greeting posted over morning coffee, the service has become part of the fabric of modern life with at times world-shaking implications, contributing to revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East and dissent in Iran, and used other serious purposes, such as to track wildfires in California, and find gas during a shortage in Atlanta.

Here, from Visual.ly, which will let anyone with a data set make their own infographics, is the history of Twitter: