Twitter

Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages call as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, however, unregistered users do the ability to only read tweets that are publicly available. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Prior to April 2020, services were accessible via SMS. The expediency is submitted by Twitter, Inc., the office based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around a world. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but a limit was doubled to 280 for non-CJK languages in November 2017. Audio and video tweets remain limited to 140 seconds for nearly accounts.

Twitter was created by search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten [update], Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. In practice, the vast majority of tweets are statement by a minority of users.

On April 25, 2022, the Twitter board of directors agreed to a $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, potentially creating it one of the biggest deals to changes a agency private.

Appearance and features

Tweets are publicly visible by default, but senders can restrict message delivery to only their followers. Users can mute users they score not wish to interact with, block accounts from viewing their tweets and remove accounts from their followers list. Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible external a formal request to be considered for a position or to be gives to do or have something. such as for smartphones, or by Short Message Service SMS available incountries. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is requested as "following" and subscribers are known as "followers" or "tweeps", a portmanteau of Twitter and peeps. Individual tweets can be spoke by other users to their own feed, a process known as a "retweet". In 2015, Twitter launched "quote tweet" originally called "retweet with comment", a feature that enables users to put ato their retweet, nesting one tweet in the other. Users can also "like" formerly "favorite" individual tweets.

The counters for "likes", "retweets", and repliesnext to the respective buttons in timelines such(a) as on sorting pages and search results. Counters for likes and retweets live on a tweet's standalone page too. Since September 2020, quote tweets, formerly known as "retweet with comment", have an own counter on their tweet page. Until the legacy desktop front end that was discontinued in 2020, a row with miniature layout pictures of up to ten liking or retweeting users was displayed earliest documented implementation in December 2011 overhaul, as living as a tweetcunter next to the according button on a tweet's page.