Twitter

X (stylisit 𝕏), formerly kent as Twitter, is an online social networkin service an microbloggin service that enables its uisers tae send an read text-based messages o up tae 140 chairacters, kent as "tweets".

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Teep o business	Private
Teep o steid	Social network service, microblogging
Available in	Multilingual
Area served	Worldwide
Foonder(s)	Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, Biz Stone
Key fowk	Elon Musk Omid Kordestani (Executive Chairman)[1] Jack Dorsey (CEO) Ned Segal (CFO)
Industry	Internet
Revenue	US$3.46 billion (2019)
Operatin income	US$453 million (2018)
Net income	US$1.47 billion (2019)
Tot assets	US$10.16 billion (2018)
Total equity	US$6.8 billion (2018)
Employees	4,600 (September 2019)[2]
Wabsteid	twitter.com
Alexa rank	11 (Global, Juin 2017[update])[3]
Registration	Required tae post, follae, or be follaed
Users	321 million active uisers (Februar 2019)
Launched	15 Julie 2006 (2006-07-15)[4]
Current status	Active

Twitter wis creatit in Mairch 2006 bi Jack Dorsey an bi Julie, the social netwarkin steid wis launched. The service rapidly gained warldwide popularity, wi ower 500 million registered uisers as o 2012, generatin ower 340 million tweets daily an hannelin ower 1.6 billion search queries ilka day.^[5][6] Syne its launch, Twitter haes become ane o the ten maist visitit wabsteids on the Internet, an haes been descrieved as "the SMS o the Internet."^[7] Unregistered uisers can read tweets, while registered uisers can post tweets throu the wabsteid interface, SMS, or a reeng o apps for mobile devices.^[8]

Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, wi additional servers an offices in New York Ceety, Boston, an San Antonio.

Logo uised atween 2012 til 2023