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The name Twitter (spelled twttr at the time and using a green site logo [5]) is chosen for the service. The idea for the name is attributed to Noah Glass. [6] [7] 2006: March 21: Creation: Twitter is officially set up and Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet. [8] 2006: July 15: Media coverage
Also in 2009, Ashton Kutcher's Twitter account became the first one with a million followers. [38] Twitter played a major role in the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests. [38] The first unassisted off-Earth Twitter message was posted from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer on January 22, 2010.
Dorsey published the first Twitter message on March 21, 2006, at 12:50 p.m. PST (UTC−08:00): "just setting up my twttr". [1] The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as an internal service for Odeo employees. [23] The full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006. [4]
Australia becomes the first country to have an age ban for under 16 on social media. [134] 2025 Milestone TikTok is banned on United States only for 12 hours, making its first app in the United States to be banned, leading large amount of users migrating to RedNote. On January 18, 2025, the day before the deadline of the law, TikTok suspended ...
A user tweeting about bugs. A tweet (officially known as a post since 2023) is a short status update on the social networking site Twitter (officially known as X since 2023) which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks.
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, Narendra Modi, Katy Perry, and Donald Trump are at the top of the list, each with over 100 million followers.
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]
Twitter's edit button, a long-awaited feature that will let users edit their tweets after they're posted, might finally be ready for release. On Thursday, Twitter posted the first-ever edited tweet.