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An activity stream is a list of recent activities performed by an individual, typically on a single website. For example, Facebook's News Feed is an activity stream. Since the introduction of the News Feed on September 6, 2006, [1] other major websites have introduced similar implementations for their own users. Since the proliferation of ...
Individual tweets can be forwarded by other users to their own feed, a process known as a "retweet", a term for reposting. In 2015, Twitter launched "quote tweet" (originally called "retweet with comment"), [7] a feature that allows users to add a comment to their retweet, nesting one tweet in the other. [8]
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]
Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.
Elon Musk is the owner of X (formerly Twitter) and the most-followed person on X. Former U.S. President Barack Obama is the most-followed politician on X. Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is the most-followed sports personality on X. Canadian singer Justin Bieber is the most-followed musician on X. Barbadian singer Rihanna is the most ...
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.
On July 25, 2014, Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales told the BBC that the @congressedits Twitter feed may have been counterproductive. Referring to a Wikipedia administrator's 10-day editing block, imposed on July 24 against a shared address within the range assigned to the U.S. House of Representatives, for disruptive editing, Wales said, "There is a belief from some of the [Wikipedia ...
A feed of posts curated for a user on the Mastodon social network. Algorithmic curation is the selection of online media by recommendation algorithms and personalized searches. Examples include search engine and social media products [1] such as the Twitter feed, Facebook's News Feed, and the Google Personalized Search.