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Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is a social networking service.It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. [4] [5] Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" (officially "posts") and like other users' content. [6]
In March 2006 Dorsey published the first Twitter post: "just setting up my Twitter." [7] [8] Dorsey has explained the origin of the "Twitter" title: [9]...we came across the word "twitter", and it was just perfect. The definition was "a short burst of inconsequential information", and "chirps from birds". And that's exactly what the product was.
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and was launched that July. By 2012, more than 100 million users tweeted 340 million tweets a day. [8] [9] The company went public in November 2013. By 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. [10]
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.
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Twitter announces that it would shut down the Twitter Dashboard. [162] 2017: January 12: Competition: The founders of App.net announce that the platform will shut down on March 14, 2017. App.net has been called "an ad-free, subscription-based, Twitter clone". [163] [164] The source code for App.net will be made available through its GitHub ...
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The following table lists the top 30 most-retweeted posts on X/Twitter, the account that posted or tweeted it, the total number of retweets or reposts rounded down to the nearest hundred thousand, and the date it was originally posted. Posts that have an identical number of reposts are listed in date order with the most recent post ranked highest.