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In October 2015, Twitter introduced "Moments"—a feature that allows users to curate tweets from other users into a larger collection. Twitter initially intended the feature to be used by its in-house editorial team and other partners; they populated a dedicated tab in Twitter's apps, chronicling news headlines, sporting events, and other content.
X Logo used since 2023 [a] X homepage visited while logged out in December 2024 Formerly Twitter (2006–2023) Type of site Social networking service Available in Multilingual Founded March 21, 2006 ; 18 years ago (2006-03-21), in San Francisco, California, U.S. Headquarters Bastrop, Texas, United States Area served Worldwide, except blocking countries Owner Odeo (March–October 2006) Obvious ...
This is a list of notable Twitter services and applications. Twitter's ecosystem of applications and clients crossed one million registered applications in 2011, [1] up from 150,000 apps in 2010. These Twitter apps were built by more than 750,000 developers around the world. [2] A new app is registered every 1.5 seconds, according to Twitter.
Twitter briefly tested a feature in 2022 that allowed users to set the current status—codenamed "vibe"— for a tweet or account, from a small set of emoji-phrase combinations. It would allow the user to either tag per-tweet, or on the profile level with it showing on tweets and the profile.
Twitter was used by candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign throughout the race. Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama used it for publicity. [46] The Nader–Gonzalez campaign updated its ballot access teams in real time with Twitter and Google Maps. [47] Twitter use increased by 43% on the day of the United States 2008 election. [48]
Twitter acquired Crashlytics, a crash reporting tool for developers, on January 28, 2013, for over US$100 million, its largest acquisition at the time. [124] Twitter committed to continue supporting and expanding the service. [125] In October 2014, Twitter announced Fabric, a suite of mobile developer tools built around Crashlytics. [126]
Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, is a feature on X (formerly Twitter) where contributors can add context such as fact-checks under a post, image or video. It is a community-driven content moderation program, intended to provide helpful and informative context, based on a crowd-sourced system.
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.