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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. [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]
Cook is the principal co-author of the OAuth and WebFinger specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site Twitter. [1] He has also worked for Yahoo! on the Fire Eagle project [2] and for BT Group as part of their open source Osmosoft team. [3]
Bootstrap, originally named Twitter Blueprint, was developed by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton at Twitter as a framework to encourage consistency across internal tools. Before Bootstrap, various libraries were used for interface development, which led to inconsistencies and a high maintenance burden.
Twitter has altered the trend algorithm in the past to prevent manipulation of this type with limited success. [55] The Twitter web interface displays a list of trending topics on a sidebar on the home page, along with sponsored content (see image). Twitter often censors trending hashtags that are claimed to be abusive or offensive.
Noah Glass is an American technology entrepreneur and software developer, whose early work included launching Twitter and Odeo, a podcasting company that closed in 2017. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Glass is credited for coining the name "Twitter", which began as "Twttr".
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.