Twitter has been consistently going up for the past year, and it topped everything off with a 5% gain today at the market close. The stock has been a disappointment for most investors since their IPO 5 years ago, but there has finally been a lot of good growth for the Social Media giant this past year. About a year ago Twitter doubled their character count from 140 to 280 characters, and this was a surprising move. They were going in the opposite direction of trying to make things short and sweet. It will be interesting to see if they make any more drastic changes to their platform going forward.