154 Facts About Twitter

Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service owned by American company Twitter, Inc, on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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.

Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility.

Twitter staff received the festival's Web Award prize with the remark "we'd like to thank you in 140 characters or less.

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On November 29, 2009, Twitter was named the Word of the Year by the Global Language Monitor, declaring it "a new form of social interaction".

The application, now called "Twitter" and distributed free of charge, is the official Twitter client for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.

In 2019, Twitter was announced to be the 10th most downloaded mobile app of the decade, from 2010 to 2019.

On December 8, 2011, Twitter overhauled its website once more to feature the "Fly" design, which the service says is easier for new users to follow and promotes advertising.

On January 28, 2013, Twitter acquired Crashlytics in order to build out its mobile developer products.

Twitter's approved, and as she told Ad Age in 2020, "literally the world changed when I woke up the next morning.

In 2019, Twitter released another redesign of its user interface and ended support for TLS 1.

Twitter experienced considerable growth in 2020, possibly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Twitter announced in March 2020 that it would start marking tweets which may contain misleading information, in some cases it will provide links to pages of fact-checking information.

On June 1, 2020, Twitter deactivated the legacy desktop front end of their web site that had originally been introduced in 2014, leaving the progressive web app version which was originally introduced in April 2017 as "Twitter Lite" for mobile phones and used by default since July 2019 as the only option.

In November 2020, Twitter announced that it would develop a social audio feature on its platform.

Later, In December 2020, Twitter began beta testing its social audio feature known as Spaces with iOS users on their platform.

Twitter moderators marked Trump's tweets as "potentially misleading" and added links to a dedicated page with additional articles from other news sources on mail-in voting, the first time they had marked Trump's tweets as such.

Twitter was among the platforms associated with the storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Nathan Akehurst of Jacobin Magazine suggested that "Twitter profited from Donald Trump's racist outbursts for years, only to delete his account a few days before his departure".

Twitter confirmed to CNN that it is testing an undo option that could potentially let users correct or even to retract a tweet before it is posted on the site.

In 2021, Twitter announced an open source initiative that could be used by any social media platform and would make content moderation more transparent with a more robust appeals process.

Twitter claimed the tweets violated its policies against "abusive behavior".

In June 2021, Twitter announced the beta rollout of its Super Follows feature.

Twitter launched the Ticketed Spaces program in beta, a premium version of its audio room feature Spaces, which makes access to certain audio rooms paid.

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Twitter rolled out changes in the interface on August 11, 2021.

An October 21, 2021, report based on a "long-running, massive-scale randomized experiment" that analyzed "millions of tweets sent between 1 April and 15 August 2020", found that Twitter's machine learning algorithm amplified right-leaning politics on personalized user Home timelines.

In May 2022, Twitter agreed to pay $150 million to settle a lawsuit started by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.

Twitter agreed to third-party audits of its data privacy program.

In June 2022, it was announced that Twitter had formed a partnership agreement with Shopify, a Canadian e-commerce company.

Twitter has stated intention to remove the spam bots, and to authenticate all real humans.

Complaint alleges Twitter has made multiple violations of United States securities regulations, the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, and a 2011 enforceable consent decree reached with the Federal Trade Commission after several issues between 2007 and 2010.

Whistleblower alleged that Twitter gave the Indian government direct unsupervised access to the company's systems and user data.

In 2015, Twitter launched "quote tweet", a feature that allows users to add a comment to their retweet, nesting one tweet in the other.

Twitter allows users to update their profile via their mobile phone either by text messaging or by apps released for certain smartphones and tablets.

Twitter has been compared to a web-based Internet Relay Chat client.

Twitter announced in a tweet September 1, 2022 that the ability to edit a tweet was being tested for a few users.

Twitter said the feature was being tested first to determine whether it could be abused.

In 2014, in anticipation for the FIFA World Cup, Twitter introduced hashflags, special hashtags that automatically generate a custom emoji next to them for a certain period of time, following the success of a similar campaign during the 2010 World Cup.

Since June 2011, Twitter has used its own t co domain for automatic shortening of all URLs posted on its site, making other link shorteners unnecessary for staying within Twitter's 140 character limit.

In 2016, Twitter announced that media such as photos, videos, and the person's handle, would not count against the already constrictive 140 character limit.

Since March 30, 2017, the Twitter handles are outside the tweet itself, therefore they no longer count towards the character limit.

Only new Twitter handles added to the conversation count towards the limit.

On June 1, 2011, Twitter announced its own integrated photo-sharing service that enables users to upload a photo and attach it to a Tweet right from Twitter.

On March 29, 2016, Twitter introduced the ability to add a caption of up to 480 characters to each image attached to a tweet, accessible via screen reading software or by hovering the mouse above a picture inside TweetDeck.

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In 2015, Twitter began to roll out the ability to attach poll questions to tweets.

In 2016, Twitter began to place a larger focus on live streaming video programming, hosting various events including streams of the Republican and Democratic conventions during the U S presidential campaign as part of a partnership with CBS News, Dreamhack and ESL eSports events, and winning a bid for non-exclusive streaming rights to ten NFL Thursday Night Football games in the 2016 season.

CEO Jack Dorsey stated that the digital video strategy was part of a goal for Twitter to be "the first place that anyone hears of anything going on that matters to them"; as of the first quarter of 2017, Twitter had over 200 content partners, who streamed over 800 hours of video over 450 events.

Twitter Spaces is a social audio feature that enables users to host or participate in a live-audio virtual environment called space for conversation.

In March 2020, Twitter began to test a stories feature known as "fleets" in some markets, which officially launched on November 17, 2020.

In June 2021, Twitter announced it would start implementing advertising into fleets, integrating full-screen ads among user-created content.

Twitter had intended for fleets to encourage more users to tweet regularly, rather than simply consume other folks' tweets, but instead fleets were generally used by users who already tweeted a lot.

Twitter stated that their spot at the top of the screen would now be occupied by currently active Spaces from the user's feed.

Twitter has altered the trend algorithm in the past to prevent manipulation of this type with limited success.

Twitter censors trending hashtags that are claimed to be abusive or offensive.

In October 2015, Twitter introduced "Moments"—a feature that allows users to curate tweets from other users into a larger collection.

Twitter initially intended the feature to be used by its in-house editorial team and other partners; they populated a dedicated tab in Twitter's apps, chronicling news headlines, sporting events, and other content.

Twitter has mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows 10, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Nokia S40.

On June 3, 2021, Twitter announced a paid subscription service known as Twitter Blue, which provides additional premium features to the service:.

In May 2021, Twitter began testing a Tip Jar feature on its iOS and Android clients.

On September 23, 2021, Twitter announced that it will allow users to tip users on the social network with bitcoin.

In July 2021, Twitter launched a test of The Shop Module, a shopping extension that directs customers to a brand's products from its official Twitter account.

In March 2022, Twitter expanded the test to allow companies to showcase up to 50 products on their profiles.

Twitter stated that it is part of their continuing efforts to bring engaging experiences to customers that allow them to shop seamlessly while being entertained.

In 2009, Twitter was mainly used by older adults who might not have used other social sites before Twitter, said Jeremiah Owyang, an industry analyst studying social media.

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Similarly, a survey of Twitter users found that a more specific social role of passing along messages that include a hyperlink is an expectation of reciprocal linking by followers.

In 2016, shareholders sued Twitter, alleging it "artificially inflated its stock price by misleading them about user engagement.

Twitter has become internationally identifiable by its signature bird logo, or the Twitter Bird.

In June 2011, Twitter announced that it would offer small businesses a self-service advertising system.

In October 2017, Twitter banned the Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik from advertising on their website following the conclusions of the U S national intelligence report the previous January that both Sputnik and RT had been used as vehicles for Russia's interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

In October 2019, Twitter announced it would stop running political ads on its ad platform effective November 22.

The continued development of Twitter has involved a switch from monolithic development of a single app to an architecture where different services are built independently and joined through remote procedure calls.

Krikorian explained that Twitter achieved this record by blending its homegrown and open source technologies.

Twitter is recognized for having one of the most open and powerful developer APIs of any major technology company.

Developer interest in Twitter began immediately following its launch, prompting the company to release the first version of its public API in September 2006.

Between 2010 and 2012, however, Twitter made a number of decisions that were received unfavorably by the developer community.

In 2010, Twitter mandated that all developers adopt OAuth authentication with just 9 weeks of notice.

Later that year, Twitter launched its own URL shortener, in direct competition with some of its most well-known third-party developers.

Twitter has a history of both using and releasing open-source software while overcoming technical challenges of their service.

Twitter introduced the first major redesign of its user interface in September 2010, adopting a dual-pane layout with a navigation bar along the top of the screen, and an increased focus on the inline embedding of multimedia content.

In March 2012, Twitter became available in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu, the first right-to-left language versions of the site.

In September 2018, Twitter began to migrate selected web users to its progressive web app, reducing the interface to two columns.

Migrations to this iteration of Twitter increased in April 2019, with some users receiving it with a modified layout.

In July 2019, Twitter officially released this redesign, with no further option to opt-out while logged in.

Since Twitter used the phone number of the sender of an SMS message as authentication, malicious users could update someone else's status page by using SMS spoofing.

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The settlement requires Twitter to take a number of steps to secure users' private information, including maintenance of a "comprehensive information security program" to be independently audited biannually.

Twitter issued a statement on their status blog at 13:50 UTC that "The exploit is fully patched.

On May 13, 2019, Twitter disclosed that they had discovered a bug that accidentally shared location data from iOS devices to an advertiser.

On December 20, 2019, Twitter fixed a security vulnerability in its Android app that could allow a hacker to take over a user's account and send tweets or direct messages as well as see private account info.

Twitter had approximately ninety-eight percent uptime in 2007.

Twitter stated that an account with a "blue tick" verification badge indicates "we've been in contact with the person or entity the account is representing and verified that it is approved".

In July 2016, Twitter announced a public application process to grant verified status to an account "if it is determined to be of public interest" and that verification "does not imply an endorsement".

In November 2020, Twitter announced a relaunch of its verification system in 2021.

Twitter messages are public, but users can send private "direct messages".

Twitter collects personally identifiable information about its users and shares it with third parties as specified in its privacy policy.

Twitter launched the beta version of their "Verified Accounts" service on June 11, 2009, allowing people with public profiles to announce their account name.

On December 14, 2010, the United States Department of Justice issued a subpoena directing Twitter to provide information for accounts registered to or associated with WikiLeaks.

Twitter decided to notify its users and said in a statement, ".

In May 2011, a claimant known as "CTB" in the case of CTB v Twitter Inc took action against Twitter at the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, requesting that the company release details of account holders.

Twitter suggested that Twitter would accede to a UK court order to divulge names of users responsible for "illegal activity" on the site.

Twitter acquired Dasient, a startup that offers malware protection for businesses, in January 2012.

Twitter announced plans to use Dasient to help remove hateful advertisers on the website.

Twitter offered a feature which would allow tweets to be removed selectively by country, before deleted tweets used to be removed in all countries.

On October 9, 2020, Twitter took additional steps to counter misleading campaigns ahead of the 2020 US Election.

On May 25, 2022, Twitter was fined $150 million by the Federal Trade Commission alongside the United States Department of Justice for "collecting users' phone numbers and email addresses for security [2 Factor Autentication]' then using it to do targeted advertising.

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Twitter was required to notify its users and is banned from profiting off of 'deceptively collected data'.

Twitter announced new reporting and blocking policies in December 2014, including a blocking mechanism devised by Randi Harper, a target of GamerGate.

Twitter banned 7, 000 accounts and limited 150, 000 more that had ties to QAnon on July 21, 2020.

Twitter said they will continue to ban or limit accounts as necessary, with their support account stating "We will permanently suspend accounts Tweeting about these topics that we know are engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to evade a previous suspension".

Jarrod Doherty, senior product manager at Twitter, stated that the technology in place within Safety Mode assesses existing relationships to prevent blocking accounts that the user frequently interacts with.

In January 2016, Twitter was sued by the widow of a U S man killed in the 2015 Amman shooting attack, claiming that allowing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to continually use the platform, including direct messages in particular, constituted the provision of material support to a terrorist organization, which is illegal under U S federal law.

Twitter disputed the claim, stating that "violent threats and the promotion of terrorism deserve no place on Twitter and, like other social networks, our rules make that clear.

Twitter suspended multiple parody accounts that satirized Russian politics in May 2016, sparking protests and raising questions about where the company stands on freedom of speech.

On May 10, 2019, Twitter announced that they suspended 166, 513 accounts for promoting terrorism in the July–December 2018 period, stating there was a steady decrease in terrorist groups trying to use the platform owing to its "zero-tolerance policy enforcement".

Twitter said this was to bring their policy in line to prevent users from bypassing their tweet content restrictions by simply linking to the banned content.

Between January and late July 2017, Twitter had identified and shut down over 7, 000 fake accounts created by Iranian influence operations.

In December 2019, Twitter removed 5, 929 accounts for violating their manipulation policies.

Twitter investigated and attributed these accounts to a single state-run information operation, which originated in Saudi Arabia.

However, Twitter did not disclose all of them as some could possibly be legitimate accounts taken over through hacking.

In March 2021, Twitter suspended around 3, 500 fake accounts that were running a campaign to influence the American audience, after the US intelligence officials concluded that the assassination of The Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi was "approved" by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Twitter was unable to identify the source of the influence campaign.

Twitter bot is a computer program that automatically posts on Twitter.

Twitter has been used for a variety of purposes in many industries and scenarios.

On June 12, 2020, Twitter suspended over 7, 000 accounts from Turkey because those accounts were fake profiles, designed to support the Turkish president and were managed by a central authority.

In May 2021, Twitter labeled one of the tweets by Sambit Patra, a spokesman of the local ruling party BJP in India, as "manipulated media", leading to Twitter's offices in Delhi and Gurgaon being raided by the local police.

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Twitter issued a statement, calling the police visit "a form of intimidation".

Later, the Indian government released a statement in July 2021 claiming Twitter has lost its liability protection concerning user-generated content.

Twitter stated to India's government in August 2021 that they have appointed permanent executives and staff to provide for compliance to these new IT rules.

In September 2022, a Dutch town sued Twitter for spreading a conspiracy theory that the town was once home to a ring of Satan-worshipping paedophiles.

Twitter refers to pornography as "adult content" and permits it on the platform provided that it is marked "sensitive", and makes it visible to all after a click through.

In May 2008, The Wall Street Journal wrote that social networking services such as Twitter "elicit mixed feelings in the technology-savvy people who have been their early adopters.

Twitter has been adopted as a communication and learning tool in educational and research settings mostly in colleges and universities.

Twitter has been an increasingly growing in the field of education, as an effective tool that can be used to encourage learning and idea, or knowledge sharing, in and outside the classroom.

Conversely, Vancouver Sun columnist Steve Dotto opined that part of Twitter's appeal is the challenge of trying to publish such messages in tight constraints, and Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School, said that "the qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

Many commentators have suggested that Twitter radically changed the format of reporting due to instant, short, and frequent communication.

Twitter used Twitter after becoming ambassador in 2011, posting in English and Russian.

Twitter is banned completely in Russia, Iran, China and North Korea, and has been intermittently blocked in numerous countries including Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Turkey, Venezuela and Turkmenistan on different bases.

In 2016, Twitter cooperated with the Israeli government to remove certain content originating outside Israel from tweets seen in Israel.

Twitter stated that between July 1 and December 31, 2018, "We received legal demands relating to 27, 283 accounts from 47 different countries, including Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, and Slovenia for the first time.

Twitter removed more than 88, 000 propaganda accounts linked to Saudi Arabia.

Twitter removed tweets from accounts associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency that had tried to influence public opinion during and after the 2016 US election.

In June 2020, Twitter removed 175, 000 propaganda accounts that were spreading biased political narratives for the Chinese Communist Party, the United Russia Party, or Turkey's President Erdogan, identified based on centralized behavior.

Twitter removed accounts linked to the governments of Armenia, Egypt, Cuba, Serbia, Honduras, Indonesia and Iran.

Twitter suspended Pakistani accounts tied to government officials for posting tweets about the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan.

Twitter announced a new policy in which they would label tweets containing misinformation going forward.

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In November 2021, Twitter announced an update to the Birdwatch moderation tool, meant to limit the visibility of contributors' identities by creating aliases for their accounts.

In March 2022, Twitter expanded access to notes made by the Birdwatch moderators, giving a randomized set of US users the ability to view the notes attached to tweets and rate them.

Twitter is increasingly used for TV to be more interactive.

Twitter has been successfully used to encourage people to watch live TV events, such as the Oscars, the Super Bowl and the MTV Video Music Awards; however this strategy has proven less effective with regularly scheduled TV shows.

However, Twitter responded by acquiring SecondSync and Parisian social TV firm Mesagraph three months later.

In March 2014, ITV became the first major broadcaster in the UK to sign up to Twitter Amplify and Twitter introduced one-tap video playback across its mobile apps to further enhance the consumer experience.

In Europe, Twitter's Amplify partner is London-based Grabyo, which has struck numerous deals with broadcasters and rights holders to share video content across Facebook and Twitter.

In July 2017, Twitter announced that it would wind down SnappyTV as a separate company, and integrate its features into the Media Studio suite on Twitter.

The most-discussed sporting event in Twitter history was the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final between Brazil and Germany on July 8, 2014.