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As Twitter continues evolving under Elon Musk’s reign, one of the platform’s latest changes prevents users from liking or retweeting posts with Substack links.
X, commonly called under the former name Twitter, is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like and retweet tweets, and read those that are publicly available.
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. [8] Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, California, and had more than 25 offices around the world. [9]
A user tweeting about bugs. A tweet (now officially known as a post since 2023) is a short status update on the social networking site Twitter (officially known as X since 2023) which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks.
The tweet appears to have been posted at 2:42 a.m. on Jan. 10 and received 739 retweets, 126 quote tweets and 25,800 likes. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Adfree Meme Savior (@i ...
Twitter users may "initiate" a ratio by replying or quote retweeting a tweet with the text "ratio" in the hopes that their tweet acquires more likes and/or retweets than the tweet being replied to. They may not always succeed; a "ratio" tweet that does not achieve this is known as a failed ratio or flop.
Chris Wetherell, creator of retweets for Twitter, described what he saw as negative consequences of retweets, stating, "We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon". Andy Baio found that about two thirds of the Gamergate harassment campaign tweets during a 72-hour period that he studied were retweets. Jason Goldman from Twitter ...
Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter in October 2022; Musk acted as CEO of Twitter until June 2023 when he was succeeded by Linda Yaccarino.In a move that, despite Yaccarino's accession, was widely attributed to Musk, [1] [2] Twitter was rebranded to X on July 23, 2023, [3] and its domain name changed from twitter.com to x.com on May 17, 2024.