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Formerly | Twitter (2006–2023) |
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Company type | Private |
Industry | Websites |
Founded | San Francisco, California, United States |
Founder | Jack Dorsey Evan Williams Biz Stone |
Headquarters | 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107 , United States[1] |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Elon Musk (Owner, CTO & Chairman) Linda Yaccarino (CEO) Evan Williams (Product Strategy) Biz Stone (Creative Director) |
Services | Social networking, Microblogging |
Revenue | ![]() |
Number of employees | 7,500 (2021)[3] |
Website | x |
X, formerly and commonly called Twitter, is a social networking and microblogging service. Users of any device with an internet connection and a web browser can send and read messages, called "tweets", on X. For years, tweets could be up to 140 characters long, then doubled to 280 characters in November 2017.[4] Tweets appear on the user's profile webpage. Tweets can usually be read by anyone, but senders can also keep messages private. Private tweets only go to their list of friends. Users may subscribe to tweets from other people. This is called following, and subscribers are known as followers. As of late 2009, users can also follow lists of authors.[5][6]
All users can send and receive tweets using the X website. They can also use other applications that work with X on smartphones. Twitter by Short Message Service (SMS) is available in certain countries.[7] Using X is free, but sending or getting tweets by SMS may cost money. The website is based in San Francisco, California. X also has servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts, and soon in Salt Lake City, Utah.
As Twitter, the service became very popular worldwide since Jack Dorsey created it in 2006. It had more than 126 million active users as of 2019.[8] It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".[9]
On April 25, 2022, the Twitter board of directors agreed to Elon Musk's US$44 billion offer to buy the company.[10] On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk took control of the company and fired CEO Parag Agarwal along with other top executives.[11]
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Also known as the 'SMS of the internet', Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service
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