What is Twitter?

Twitter (commonly known as Twitter ) is an American social network and microblogging service website, and is one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet worldwide. Is a typical application of microblog. It allows users to update messages up to 140 characters long. These messages are also called "Tweets". The service was started by Jack Dorsey in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter is very popular all over the world. According to Twitter's current CEO Dick Costello, as of March 2012, Twitter has 140 million active users, and Twitter has been described as "the Internet's short message service."

Twitter

Pioneer in blogging technology in 2006

Twitter itself does not provide particularly complicated functions, and almost all loyal users will have their favorite third-party applications. Here is a brief introduction to some commonly used third-party applications:

Twitter has developed a "brand channel" where companies can build brand pages on Twitter and form multiple brand groups at the same time, so that fans of the same brand can come together. And enterprises can send users a variety of new products and promotional information through the platform. The immediacy and sharing of Twitter allows a message to quickly spread to groups and teams with the same interests.

Even users interact with each other, and they may forward information to other friends. Many American companies are already adopting this approach. (Case source "

Twitter's blue bird icon is a household name, and the kid's name is Larry Bird. Co-founder of twitter in August 2011

On December 18, 2018,

Under attack

On August 6, 2009, Twitter was subjected to a "denial of service" attack. Starting at around 9 AM EST, Twitter has been unable to log in for about two hours. ^[33-34]

Complete revision

Twitter new user homepage

Twitter announced on February 16, 2012 that the revision work that started in December 2011 has been completed, and the newly added features have been opened to all users after the revision. ^[35]

In the new version of Twitter, users can view the number of followers, reposts of their Twitter information, and view the results of ranking Twitter information based on their interests or geographic location. In addition, the new version of Twitter allows all users to view Twitter brand pages. ^[36]

Restructuring Music Services

On October 20, 2013, the US technology blog AllThingsD stated that Twitter is considering abandoning the Twitter #Music application and reorganizing the music team, and the launch of this application is only 6 months. ^[37]

Turkey lifts ban

On April 4, 2014, an office official of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan stated that after the Turkish Constitutional Court ruled that the telecommunications authority TIB's blockade of Twitter violated free speech, the department has already The ban was lifted.

Since tapping recordings of senior Turkish officials were exposed on Twitter, the country has blocked Twitter since the preparatory phase of the general election on March 21, 2014. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan even said he would "eradicate" Twitter. ^[38]

High-level change

On October 31, 2014, Twitter has appointed Kevin Weil as the Product Owner, will expand its terms of reference, and will change Daniel Graf to another position. ^[39]

Live Spring Festival Gala

In February 2015, CCTV Spring Festival Gala broadcasted live on overseas websites such as Twitter for the first time. In addition, CCTV also produced a collection of Spring Festival Gala over the years and promoted it to overseas markets. It can be seen on Twitter and other websites, so that more overseas Chinese and foreigners who love Chinese culture and desire to understand Chinese culture have the opportunity to see the Spring Festival Gala. . ^[40-41]

U.S. President opens account

In May 2015, US President Barack Obama officially opened his personal Twitter account. ^[42]

Proposed lifting of 140-word limit

Beijing time on January 6, 2016 morning news, Twitter's most beloved feature is about to change: the company plans to expand the word limit from the existing 140 characters to 10,000 characters, the news is expected to be announced in March 2016. ^[43]

Account suspension

It was reported on July 7, 2018 that Twitter suspended more than 7,000 accounts in May and June 2018. ^{[2] In the} morning of July 13th, social media data company Keyhole said that in order to increase the credibility of the service, a policy change announced by Twitter on Thursday will result in an average of 2% of the 100 most popular big V followers . ^[44]

Business cooperation

On September 23, 2019, Twitter, Alibaba, Facebook, and Uber jointly established the Presto Foundation for large-scale distributed data processing. ^[45]

Ban on political advertising

On October 30, 2019, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, said he would ban political ads on his platform next month. ^[46]