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A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Tweet number number Numerical ID of the tweet Number required User handle user Twitter account name, without the @ String required Tweet contents title Partial or entire content of the tweet, optionally including hashtags (#), at signs ...
This template allows relevant tweets to be easily quoted within articles, with a citation automatically generated using the template, "cite tweet". Using this template is better than a screen-shot of a tweet because the text is accessible to screen readers. It is an alternative to standard quotation templates because it displays all relevant information about the tweet (date of posting, user's ...
The external links guideline recommends avoiding ==External links== to Twitter.Only include links to social media if the subject is particularly known for using that social medium, and when the link provides the reader with significant unique content, and it is not easily linked from another link included in the article (i.e. if the individual's homepage is linked and that has a prominent link ...
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.
Following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk in October 2022, and rebranding of the site as "X" in June 2023, all references to the word "tweet" were removed from the service, changed to "post", and "retweet" changed to "repost". [1] The terms "tweet" and "retweet" are still more popular when referring to posts on X. [2] [3]
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 ...
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.
The external links guideline recommends avoiding ==External links== to Twitter.Only include links to social media if the subject is particularly known for using that social medium, and when the link provides the reader with significant unique content, and it is not easily linked from another link included in the article (i.e. if the individual's homepage is linked and that has a prominent link ...