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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, 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]
This was notable as the Oxford English Dictionary normally waits ten years after the coining of a word to add it to the dictionary. [94] In 2023, the terms "tweet" and "retweet" were quietly retired in favor of the terms "post" and "repost", as a part of Twitter's rebrand to X, but many users continue to use the former terms on the platform. [95]
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 acquired Crashlytics, a crash reporting tool for developers, on January 28, 2013, for over US$100 million, its largest acquisition at the time. [123] Twitter committed to continue supporting and expanding the service. [124] In October 2014, Twitter announced Fabric, a suite of mobile developer tools built around Crashlytics. [125]
This list contains the top 50 accounts with the most followers on the social media platform X, formerly and commonly known as Twitter.Notable figures such as Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Narendra Modi, and Donald Trump are at the top of the list, each with over 100 million followers.
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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.