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When you choose to follow another Twitter user, that user's tweets appear in reverse chronological order on your main Twitter page. If you follow 20 people, you'll see a mix of tweets scrolling down the page: breakfast-cereal updates, interesting new links, music recommendations, even musings on the future of education.
Twitter acquired Crashlytics, a crash reporting tool for developers, on January 28, 2013, for over US$100 million, its largest acquisition at the time. [128] Twitter committed to continue supporting and expanding the service. [129] In October 2014, Twitter announced Fabric, a suite of mobile developer tools built around Crashlytics. [130]
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. [5] [6] Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" (officially "posts") and like other users' content. [7]
Users can group posts together by topic or type by use of hashtags – words or phrases prefixed with a "#" sign. Similarly, the "@" sign followed by a username is used for mentioning or replying to other users. [136] Hashflags are special hashtags that automatically generate a custom emoji next to them for a certain period of time. [137]
Facebook login page changes due to Facebook Timeline addition. 2012: January 10: Product (news feed) Facebook starts showing advertisements (called Featured Posts) in the news feed. The advertisements are generally for pages that one's Facebook friends have engaged with. [353] [354] 2012: April: Acquisition: Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 ...
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This meant putting the name of a user, a brand, an event or a group [14] in a post in such a way that it linked to the wall of the Facebook page being tagged, and made the post appear in news feeds for that page, as well as those of selected friends. [15] This was first done using the "@" symbol followed by the person's name.
Twitter is increasingly being used as a business promotional tool. Twitter encourages this through "Twitter 101", a web-based tutorial aimed at business users. [125] For example, one of the notable business Twitter users is Dell, which reported $9m of its 2009 sales coming directly through Twitter and Facebook combined. [126]