Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which customers submit and interact with messages referred to as "tweets". Registered users can submit, like, and retweet tweets, however unregistered users can only read them. Users get entry to Twitter thru its internet site interface or its cellular-tool application software program ("app"), even though the provider can also be accessed through SMS earlier than April 2020.[13] Twitter, Inc. Is primarily based in San Francisco, California, and has extra than 25 offices around the world.[14] Tweets have been firstly limited to a hundred and forty characters, however the limit turned into doubled to 280 for non-CJK languages in November 2017.[15] Audio and video tweets stay confined to one hundred forty seconds for maximum debts.
Twitter, Inc.
Twitter Logo as of 2021.Svg
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Twitter Home Page (Moments model, international locations with out devoted feed).Png
The default page shown to logged-out customers
Type of commercial enterprise
Public
Type of website
News, social networking service
Available in
Multilingual
Traded as
NYSE: TWTR
S&P 500 Component
Founded
March 21, 2006; 15 years in the past
Headquarters
San Francisco, California United States
Area served
Worldwide
Founder(s)
Jack Dorsey
Noah Glass
Biz Stone
Evan Williams
Key humans
Omid Kordestani
(Executive Chairman)[1]
Ned Segal (CFO)
Jack Dorsey (CEO)
Parag Agrawal (CTO)
Industry
Internet
Revenue
Decrease US$three.72 billion (2020)
Operating earnings
Decrease US$27 million (2020)
Net earnings
Decrease US$-1.13 billion (2020)
Total assets
Increase US$13.37 billion (2020)
Total fairness
Decrease US$7.97 billion (2020)
Employees
four,600 (September 2019)[2]
Subsidiaries
Vine
Periscope
MoPub
URL
twitter.Com Edit this at Wikidata
Registration
Required
Users
330 million monthly lively customers
(Q1 2019)
Launched
July 15, 2006; 14 years ago
Current reputation
Active
Native customer(s) on
iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Web
Written in
Java
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
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Twitter changed into created by using Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and released in July of that year. By 2012, more than one hundred million users posted 340 million tweets an afternoon,[16] and the service dealt with an average of 1.6 billion search queries according to day.[17][18][19] In 2013, it became one of the ten maximum-visited web sites and has been defined as "the SMS of the Internet".[20] As of Q1 2019, Twitter had extra than 330 million month-to-month energetic customers.[10] Twitter is a a few-to-many microblogging carrier, for the reason that the enormous majority of tweets are written by using a small minority of users.[21][22]
