Twitter

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Microblogging and social networking service

• Launch Date

  2006-07

• Headquarters

  San Francisco, California, United States

• Users (2012)

  Over 100 million

• Founding Date

  2006-03

• Revenue (2021)

  $5 billion

• Revenue (2022)

  $4.4 billion

• Revenue (2023)

  $2.9 billion

• Number of Offices

  More than 25 offices worldwide

• Daily Posts (2012)

  340 million

• Revenue (2024 Forecast)

  $2.5 billion

• Official Name (since 2023)

  X

• Initial Post Character Limit

  140 characters

• Estimated Bot Accounts (2020)

  Approximately 48 million (15% of all accounts)

• Monthly Active Users (May 2024)

  600 million

• Acquisition Price (October 2022)

  $44 billion

• Monthly Active Users (March 2023)

  500 million

• Monthly Active Users (March 2024)

  550 million

• Monthly Active Users (early 2019)

  More than 330 million

• Post Character Limit (since 2017)

  280 characters

• Acquisition Price (March 2025 by xAI)

  $33 billion (valuation), $45 billion (full valuation including debt)

• Post Character Limit for Subscribed Accounts (since 2023)

  Removed

Timeline

• Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. (Source: undefined)

  2006-03

• Twitter was launched to the public. (Source: undefined)

  2006-07

• Received its first boost of users at SXSW 2007. (Source: undefined)

  2007-03

• A draft U.S. Army intelligence report identified Twitter as a 'potential terrorist tool'. (Source: undefined)

  2008-10

• The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs held the first government worldwide press conference via Twitter. (Source: undefined)

  2008-12-30

• Reached over 100 million users producing 340 million daily tweets. (Source: undefined)

  2012

• Became one of the ten most-visited websites. (Source: undefined)

  2013

• Twitter filed for IPO. (Source: undefined)

  2013-09

• Underwent a redesign that made the site resemble Facebook. (Source: undefined)

  2014-04

• The post character limit was doubled to 280 characters for non-CJK languages. (Source: undefined)

  2017-11

• Had more than 330 million monthly active users. (Source: undefined)

  2019

• Estimated approximately 48 million accounts (15% of all accounts) were run by internet bots. (Source: undefined)

  2020

• The Twitter board of directors agreed to a $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk. (Source: undefined)

  2022-04-25

• Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion was finalized. (Source: undefined)

  2022-10-27

• Twitter, Inc. was succeeded by X Corp. (Source: undefined)

  2023-03

• Reached 500 million monthly active users. (Source: undefined)

  2023-03

• Linda Yaccarino succeeded Elon Musk as CEO, with Musk remaining as chairman and CTO. (Source: undefined)

  2023-06-05

• Twitter was rebranded to 'X' and the bird logo was retired. (Source: undefined)

  2023-07

• The post character limitation was removed for subscribed accounts. (Source: undefined)

  2023

• Reached 550 million monthly active users. (Source: undefined)

  2024-03

• Reached 600 million monthly active users and the bird logo retirement process was completed. (Source: undefined)

  2024-05

• X Corp. was acquired by xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, in an all-stock transaction valued at $33 billion (full valuation $45 billion including debt). (Source: undefined)

  2025-03

• Linda Yaccarino stepped down from her role as CEO. (Source: undefined)

  2025-07

Twitter

Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" (officially "posts") and like other users' content. The platform also includes direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok), job search, and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, California, and had more than 25 offices around the world. A signature characteristic of the service initially was that posts were required to be brief. Posts were initially limited to 140 characters, which was changed to 280 characters in 2017. The limitation was removed for subscribed accounts in 2023. 10% of users produce over 80% of tweets. In 2020, it was estimated that approximately 48 million accounts (15% of all accounts) were run by internet bots rather than humans. The service is owned by the American company X Corp., which was established to succeed the prior owner Twitter, Inc. in March 2023 following the October 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk for US$44 billion. Musk stated that his goal with the acquisition was to promote free speech on the platform. Since his acquisition, the platform has been criticized for enabling the increased spread of disinformation and hate speech. Linda Yaccarino succeeded Musk as CEO on June 5, 2023, with Musk remaining as the chairman and the chief technology officer. In July 2023, Musk announced that Twitter would be rebranded to "X" and the bird logo would be retired, a process which was completed by May 2024. In March 2025, X Corp. was acquired by xAI, Musk's artificial intelligence company. The deal, an all-stock transaction, valued X at $33 billion, with a full valuation of $45 billion when factoring in $12 billion in debt. Meanwhile, xAI itself was valued at $80 billion. In July 2025, Linda Yaccarino stepped down from her role as CEO.

Web Search Results

• Twitter - Wikipedia

  Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites.( Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets "Tweet (social media)")" (officially "posts") and like other users' content.( The platform also includes direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok "Grok [...] Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams "Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)"), and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets.( Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, California, and had more than 25 offices around the world.( A signature characteristic of the service initially was that posts were required to be brief. Posts were initially limited to 140 [...] had 500 million monthly active users in March 2023, 550 million in March 2024, and 600 million in May 2024.(

• What is X (Twitter)? | Definition from TechTarget

  In March 2006, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams created Twitter. The idea for Twitter came from wanting to use a short messaging system for a small group. It was available to the public in July 2006. The definition of twitter is a short burst of inconsequential information and chirps from birds, which describes the purpose of social networking on Twitter -- to share short and quick information. Other Twitter notables: [...] 2012: More than 100 million users post 340 million tweets daily. 2013: Twitter is in the top 10 of the most visited websites. 2013: Twitter files for IPO in September. 2019: Twitter has more than 330 million active users. 2022: Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, reaches an agreement to acquire Twitter for $44 billion to make it a private company in April. Acquisition was finalized in October.

• History of Twitter - Wikipedia

  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. The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Evan Williams "Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)") later ascribed to Noah Glass "Noah Glass (Twitter)"), inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS [...] short codes. The decision was also partly due to the fact that the domain twitter.com was already in use, and it was six months after the launch of twttr that the crew purchased the domain and changed the name of the service to Twitter. The developers initially considered "10958" as the service's short code for SMS text messaging, but later changed it to "40404" for "ease of use and memorability". [...] In April 2014, Twitter underwent a redesign that made the site resemble Facebook somewhat, with a profile picture and biography in a column left to the timeline, and a full-width header image with parallax scrolling effect. That layout was used as the main for the desktop front end until July 2019, undergoing changes over time such as the removal of shortcut buttons to jump to the previous or next tweet in early 2017, and rounded profile pictures since June 2017.[original research?] Twitter

• Twitter usage - Wikipedia

  In September 2010, Twitter was a key stream of communication by the media inside a Connecticut courtroom during the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders trial.( [...] In October 2008, a draft U.S. Army intelligence report identified Twitter as a "potential terrorist tool". The report said it "is already used by some members to post and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives."( David Saranga of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on December 30, 2008, that Israel would be the first government to hold a worldwide press conference via Twitter to take questions from the public about the war against Hamas in Gaza.( [...] Given its IM-like functionality, Twitter provides a unique platform to communicate real-time information from roboticmachines to human managers, engineers and/or other interested parties. Numerous examples exist of robots whose sensor data is interpreted offline and tweeted by human operators. For example, NASA's humanoid-robot "Robonaut" has a Twitter feed with tweets posted by human operators.( However, relatively few projects involve robots that post their own tweets without human

• Twitter Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025) - Business of Apps

  Twitter Gender Demographics Most Followed Twitter Accounts Twitter vs Competitors: Users Twitter FAQ More Social App Data Twitter is a real-time microblogging platform, publicly launched in July 2006. At launch, its defining features were the tight limits placed on each post, known at a tweet. Originally, users could only use 140 characters, although that has been elongated over the years. [...] | Year | Revenue ($bn) | | --- | --- | | 2012 | 0.3 | | 2013 | 0.6 | | 2014 | 1.4 | | 2015 | 2.2 | | 2016 | 2.5 | | 2017 | 2.4 | | 2018 | 3 | | 2019 | 3.4 | | 2020 | 3.7 | | 2021 | 5 | | 2022 | 4.4 | | 2023 | 2.9 | | 2024 | 2.5 | _Sources: Bloomberg, Company data, Social App Report_ Twitter Revenue by Segment -------------------------- Advertising revenues have plummeted over the past two years, and its subscription and data licensing side has not been able to make up for that loss. [...] Formed by former Odeo employees Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the site originally used SMS to send tweets onto the network. It received its first boost of users at SXSW 2007, when the founders showed all the tweets hitting the network in real-time.

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• Country

  United States

• Founder

  Jack Dorsey

• Employees

  29

• Instance Of

  Q1589009

• Headquarters

  San Francisco

• Inception Date

  4/19/2007

Twitter is a microblogging, social networking service owned by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Before April 2020, services were accessible via SMS. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but the limit was doubled to 280 for non-CJK languages in November 2017. Audio and video tweets remain limited to 140 seconds for most accounts. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. By 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". By the start of 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. In practice, the vast majority of tweets are written by a minority of users. As of 2020, fake accounts were estimated to make up 15% of Twitter accounts, approximately 48 million accounts. On April 25, 2022, the Twitter board of directors agreed to a $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk, making it one of the biggest deals to take a company private. After a protracted period of controversy and legal battles, the deal closed on October 27. Following Musk's takeover, Twitter has been criticized for increasingly promoting hate speech, followed by advertiser moratoriums, mass firings and mass quitting.