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Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company based in San Francisco, California, which operated and was named for its flagship social media network prior to its rebrand as X. In addition to Twitter, the company previously operated the Vine short video app and Periscope livestreaming service.
- Twitter
This article is about the social networking service. For the...
- Timeline
Twitter launches as a product of parent company Odeo. It...
- Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk
Business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of...
- Twitter
With over 500 million users, it is one of the world's largest social media websites and the fifth-most visited website in the world. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in posts and like or repost other users' content.
- Background
- 2006–2007
- 2007–2010
- 2010–2014
- 2014–2020
- 2020-Musk Acquisition
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Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Evan Williams later ascribed ...
Work on the project which would become Twitter started in February 2006.In March 2006 Dorsey published the first Twitter post: "just setting up my twttr". Dorsey has explained the origin of the "Twitter" title: The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as an internal service for Odeo employees. The full...
The tipping point for Twitter's popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000. "The Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages," remarked Newsweek's Steven Levy...
From September through October 2010, the company began rolling out "New Twitter", an entirely revamped edition of twitter.com. Changes included the ability to see pictures and videos without leaving Twitter itself by clicking on individual tweets which contain links to images and clips from a variety of supported websites, including YouTube and Fli...
2014 was a hard year for Twitter with analysts and the market both pessimistic about the company. In April 2014, Twitter underwent a redesign that made the site resemble Facebook somewhat, with a profile picture and biography in a column left to the timeline, and a full-width header image with parallax scrolling effect.[a] That layout was used as t...
Twitter experienced considerable growth during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The platform also was increasingly used for misinformation related to the pandemic. This combination posed a significant challenge to Twitter, as a result they started marking tweets which contained misleading information, and adding links to fact-checks. Twitter was not ...
Parag Agrawal (Hindi pronunciation: [pəˈɾaːɡ əɡɾəˈʋaːl]; born May 21, 1984) is an Indian-American software engineer and businessman who was the CEO of Twitter, Inc. from November 2021 to October 2022.
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