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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, but unregistered users can only read them. Wikipedia
Created by: Jack Dorsey
Founded: March 21, 2006; 13 years ago
Users: 321 million active users; (February 2019)
Employees: 4,600 (September 2019)
Date launched: July 15, 2006
Founders: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Evan WilliamsTwitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) 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, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service (SMS) or its mobile-device application software ("app").Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around the world.Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but was doubled to 280 for non-Asian languages in November 2017.Type of business
Public
Type of site
News, social networking service
Available in
Multilingual
Traded as
NYSE: TWTR
S&P 500 Component
Founded
March 21, 2006; 13 years ago
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Coordinates
37.7768°N 122.4166°W
Area served
Worldwide
Founder(s)
Jack Dorsey
Noah Glass
Biz Stone
Evan Williams
Key people
Omid Kordestani
(Executive Chairman)
Jack Dorsey
(CEO)
Ned Segal
(CFO)
Industry
Internet
Revenue
Increase US$3.04 billion (2018)
Operating income
Increase US$453 million (2018)
Net income
Increase US$1.2 billion (2018)
Total assets
Increase US$10.16 billion (2018)
Total equity
Increase US$6.8 billion (2018)
Employees
4,600 (September 2019
Subsidiaries
Vine
Periscope
MoPub
Website
twitter.com Edit this at Wikidata
Alexa rank
Decrease 36 (Global, January 2020
Registration
Required to post, follow, or be followed
Users
321 million active users
(February 2019)
Launched
July 15, 2006; 13 years ago
Current status
Active
Written in
Java
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptTwitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, launched in July of that year. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". As of 2018, Twitter had more than 321 million monthly active users