Twitter, Inc. (delisted)

Twitter, Inc. is an American online microblogging and social networking service based in San Francisco, California. The platform allows users to create, distribute, and discover content in real-time. It is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, with over 330 million monthly active users. Twitter was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of the same year. Since then, it has become an important source of news, with users often sharing breaking news stories and events as they happen.

The company’s primary product is Twitter, a platform that allows users to consume, create, distribute, and discover content. It also provides promoted products that enable advertisers to promote brands, products, and services. These include Promoted Ads, Follower Ads, and Twitter Takeover. Twitter also offers monetization products for creators, such as Tips, Super Follows, and Ticketed Spaces. Twitter’s developer and data partner products include the Twitter Developer Platform, which enables developers to build tools for people and businesses using its public application programming interface, and paid access to Twitter data for partners with commercial use cases.

Twitter has become an important source of news and information, with users often sharing breaking news stories and events as they happen. This has made it an attractive platform for political campaigns and movements, and it has been used by leaders around the world to communicate with their followers. Twitter also features a range of safety and security features, including the ability to block and mute users, as well as reporting tools for users who experience harassment or abuse.

Twitter has grown significantly since its launch in 2006, and as of October 27, 2022, it had been taken private. The company has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2013, and its market capitalization was estimated to be around $30 billion as of October 2021. Twitter has also made several acquisitions, including the purchase of Vine in 2012, Periscope in 2014, and Magic Pony in 2016. The company has also launched several new products, including Twitter Lite, a version of the platform designed to work on slower connections, and Twitter Moments, which curates content from around the platform into stories.