Twitter

Twitter, Inc.

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Type of business Public

Type of site News, social networking service

Available in Multilingual

 NYSE: TWTR
Traded as
 S&P 500 Component

Founded March 21, 2006; 15 years ago

Headquarters San Francisco, California United States

Area served Worldwide

Founder(s)  Jack Dorsey

 Noah Glass

 Biz Stone

 Evan Williams

Key people  Omid Kordestani

 (Executive Chairman)[1]

 Ned Segal (CFO)

 Jack Dorsey (CEO)

 Parag Agrawal (CTO)

Industry Internet

Revenue  US$3.72 billion (2020)

Operating  US$27 million (2020)

income

Net income  US$-1.13 billion (2020)

Total assets  US$13.37 billion (2020)

Total equity  US$7.97 billion (2020)

Employees 5,500+ (December 2020)[2]

 Subsidiaries  Vine

 Periscope

 MoPub

URL twitter.com 

Registration Required

Users  330 million monthly active users

 (Q1 2019)

Launched July 15, 2006; 14 years ago

Current status Active

Native client(s) iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Microsoft

on Windows, MacOS, Web

Written in  Java

 Ruby

 Scala

 JavaScript

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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. Users access Twitter through its website interface or
its mobile-device application software ("app"), though the service could also be accessed
via SMS before April 2020.[13] The service is provided by Twitter, Inc., a corporation based in San
Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around the world.[14] Tweets were originally
restricted to 140 characters, but the limit was doubled to 280 for non-CJK languages in
November 2017.[15] 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. By 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million
tweets a day,[16] and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.[17][18][19] In
2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the
Internet".[20] As of Q1 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users.[10] Twitter is a
some-to-many microblogging service, given that the vast majority of tweets are written by a
small minority of users.[21][22]