Introduction:
Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, however, unregistered users have the ability to only read tweets that are publicly available.
Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
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.
Twitter is a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. By developing a fundamentally new way for people to consume, create, distribute and discover content, Twitter enables any voice to echo around the world instantly and unfiltered. The service can be accessed at Twitter.com, on a variety of mobile devices, and via SMS. Available in more than 35 languages, Twitter has 316 million monthly active users. For more information, visit about.twitter.com or follow @twitter. U.S. offices Atlanta, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco (Headquarters), Seattle, Sunnyvale, Washington. D.C. International offices Amsterdam, Bangalore, Berlin, Bogota, Brussels, Cologne, Dubai, Dublin, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Jakarta, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Mumbai, New Delhi, Osaka, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver
Key Facts:
- Parent Company Launch date: March 21, 2006; 16 years ago (2006-03-21)
- Product Launch: 2006
- Founder: Jack DorseyNoah GlassBiz StoneEvan Williams
- Estimated Monthly Visitors: over-1b
- Telephone number: 415-222-9670
- Domain name: twitter.com
- Owner: Twitter
- Company Type: Social networking service
- Country of operation: Worldwide