Twitter is the next big tech company to go public and it’s doing so in a big way. It hasn’t been since the Facebook IPO that the tech community has been so obsessed with a tech company’s stock. One of the things that’s driving all of the talk about Twitter’s IPO is how secretive they were until now about their revenue, and how they make it.

Twitter should go public in the next few weeks, many reports are suggesting mid November. In what came as a shock to many Twitter is rolling out their IPO on the New York Stock Exchange instead of the Nasdaq which has been home to most of the recent tech IPOs.  Twitter will hit the NYSE with the stock simple TWTR.

Many suggest that Twitter’s decision to go with NYSE over Nasdaq was because of the turmoil that surrounded Facebook’s IPO and the fate of Zynga’s.

As the world prepares for Twitter’s IPO  the infographic below takes a look at how far they’ve come. An upcoming book by New York Times tech columnist Nick Bilton will also chronicle Twitter. His book “Hatching Twitter” goes on sale Tuesday at midnight.

The infographic takes a look at the company which launched in 2006 and where they are today. Brickfish compiled the infographic below. 

Source: Brickfish