Twitter moderators used the aforementioned tools to mark 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. Stevens noted in his post-game presser that Williams was particularly good in his pick-and-roll defense against Steph Curry. Boston Celtics second-year forward Grant Williamsâ favorite player makes a lot of sense, when you look at his game. This boost was greater than the 10x improvement that Twitter's engineers envisioned when starting the switch. [270] Twitter board member Todd Chaffee forecast that the company could profit from e-commerce, noting that users may want to buy items directly from Twitter since it already provides product recommendations and promotions. [327][328][329][330], The new layout was revised in 2011 with a focus on continuity with the web and mobile versions, introducing "Connect" (interactions with other users such as replies) and "Discover" (further information regarding trending topics and news headlines) tabs, an updated profile design, and moving all content to the right pane (leaving the left pane dedicated to functions and the trending topics list). [299], In September 2016, Twitter shares rose 20% after a report that it had received takeover approaches. [162] A similar platform called GladlyCast exists for mobile phone users in Singapore and Malaysia. He pays attention to detail. [540][541], Twitter removed tweets from accounts associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency that were spreading misinformation during and after the 2016 election. "Adults are just catching up to what teens have been doing for years," he said. [146] Twitter has been compared to a web-based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. [305][306] Twitter's board of directors were open to a deal, which could have come by the end of 2016. Similarly, the "@" sign followed by a username is used for mentioning or replying to other users. [461], The service is also used as a form of civil disobedience: In 2010, users expressed outrage over the Twitter Joke Trial by copying a controversial joke about bombing an airport and attaching the hashtag #IAmSpartacus, a reference to the film Spartacus (1960) and a sign of solidarity and support to a man controversially prosecuted after posting a tweet joking about bombing an airport if they canceled his flight. Comment if you want a specific player. [375] A month later Twitter announced it would implement the "Do Not Track" privacy option, a cookie-blocking feature found in Mozilla's Firefox browser. Dick Costolo, formerly Twitter's chief operating officer, became CEO. This caption can be accessed by screen reading software or by hovering the mouse above a picture inside TweetDeck. In addition to the Home tab, the Connect and Discover tabs were introduced along with a redesigned profile and timeline of Tweets. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is. [430][435] The companies that facilitate this service create fake Twitter accounts that follow a number of people, some of these Twitter accounts may even post fake tweets to make it seem like they are real. As of April 13, Twitter announced it had already signed up a number of companies wishing to advertise, including Sony Pictures, Red Bull, Best Buy, and Starbucks. [534], After claims in the media that the hashtags #wikileaks and #occupywallstreet were being censored because they did not show up on the site's list of trending topics, Twitter responded by stating that it does not censor hashtags unless they contain obscenities. [518], More than twenty Roman Catholic cardinals manage active Twitter accounts,[519] nine of whom were cardinal electors for the 2013 Papal conclave. Rumor: Celtics actively looking for upgrades. [494], The poets Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin published a book titled Selected Tweets featuring selections of their tweets over some eight years. [497] In 2009, Twitter won the "Breakout of the Year" Webby Award. On October 4, 2010, Williams made an announcement saying that he will stay with the company and "be completely focused on product strategy". [205][206], In November 2020, Twitter announced a relaunch of its verification system in 2021, and that the new system would rely in part upon Wikipedia. [199], In a March 8, 2018 live-stream on Twitter's Periscope, CEO Dorsey discussed the idea of allowing any user to get a verified account. 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. On launch, the concept was limited to NBCUniversal channels and Xfinity cable television subscribers. [500] 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". [209] Users can also tweet by sending SMS. [237], Daily user estimates vary as the company does not publish statistics on active accounts. [110] 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". [150] In 2009, the first tweet was sent from space. [380], After a number of high-profile hacks of official accounts, including those of the Associated Press and The Guardian,[381] in April 2013, Twitter announced a two-factor login verification as an added measure against hacking. "[431] The tweets generated vary anywhere from a simple automated response to content creation and information sharing, all of which depends on the intention of the person purchasing or creating the bot. [355] Some of the compromised accounts sent falsified tweets, including drug-related messages. Those methods have their individual benefits and disadvantages. He played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers.A 6'7" power forward from Charlotte, North Carolina, he was drafted 22nd overall in the 2019 NBA draft [234] A user can add a text, pictures and videos in a fleet, which will disappear after 24 hours. [570] This effect is sometimes referred to as the second screen,[571] "virtual watercooler" or social televisionâthe practice has been called "chatterboxing". [61] Twitter also expanded its office in Dublin. The 140-character limit also increased the usage of URL shortening services such as bit.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl.com, tr.im, and other content-hosting services such as TwitPic, memozu.com and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters. It was neither intended nor designed for high-performance communication, but the idea that it could be used for emergency communication was not lost on the creators, who knew that the service could have wide-reaching effects early on when the company used it to communicate during earthquakes. [487] In the same study it was found that out of a group of 158 educators, 92% agreed that the reason they use Twitter is because of how user friendly it is,[487] another 86% agreed that they started and continue using Twitter because of how easy it is to learn, and finally,[487] 93% said they use Twitter because it is free. [267] Its second B round of funding in 2008 was for US$22 million[268] and its third C round of funding in 2009 was for US$35 million from Institutional Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital along with an undisclosed amount from other investors including Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, and Insight Venture Partners. Facebook struck the partnership to help marketers understand how people are using the social network to talk about topics such as TV. Itâs tough to be in and out of the rotation, but we trust in him. [596][597] As of 18 March 2014[update], it has been retweeted over 3.4 million times. [600][601] It beat the previous record, 778,801, which was held by Barack Obama, following his victory in the 2012 presidential election. Following a high of 24% of the United States population in 2016, in 2019, Pew Research had found its overall usage had dropped to 22%. They assured that the data was not retained and that the bug was fixed. He played sparingly against the Sixers and only garbage minutes in a blowout of the Cavaliers. [127] In November 2016, COO Adam Bain announced his resignation and CFO Anthony Noto took over Bain's role. [33][291] In an October 15, 2013 amendment to their SEC S-1 filing,[292] Twitter declared that they would list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), quashing speculation that their stock would trade on the NASDAQ exchange. Just ask Kemba Walker who hosted Williams in the early part of COVID quarantine before the NBA restarted in Orlando. [115] On October 4, 2010, Williams announced that he was stepping down as CEO. A broad example of a hashtag used in education is "edchat", to communicate with other teachers, and people using that hashtag. [545] Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel criticized the ban saying that "lawmakers should set the rules governing free speech and not private technology companies. [382] In August 2013, Twitter announced plans to introduce a "report abuse" button for all versions of the site following uproar, including a petition with 100,000 signatures, over Tweets that included rape and death threats to historian Mary Beard, feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez and the member of parliament Stella Creasy. This can lead to an argument on a Twitter feed looking like a "debate roiling the country... regular people are left with a confused, agitated view of our current political discourse". [549][550][551], Around this time, the killing of George Floyd, an African-American, in an incident involving four white Minneapolis Police Department officers on May 25, sparked racially-driven riots in the city that turned violent by the evening of May 28. [435] With Twitterbots, users are able to create the illusion of "buzz" on their site by obtaining followers from services such as Swenzy and underground suppliers who operate bot farms or click farms. [75] On June 4, 2014, Twitter announced that it would acquire Namo Media, a technology firm specializing in "native advertising" for mobile devices. [281][282], The company generated US$45 million in annual revenue in 2010, after beginning sales midway through that year; the company operated at a loss through most of 2010.[274]. [514], According to an analysis of accounts, the heads of state of 125 countries and 139 other leading politicians have Twitter accounts that have between them sent more than 350,000 tweets and have almost 52 million followers. [454] A page in their developer documentation thanks dozens of open source projects which they have used, from revision control software like Git to programming languages such as Ruby and Scala. [484][485][486], 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. [269], In May 2008, The Industry Standard remarked that Twitter's long-term viability is limited by a lack of revenue. [524][525][526][527][528] In 2016, Twitter cooperated with the Israeli government to remove certain content originating outside Israel from tweets seen in Israel. [298] On January 5, 2016, CEO Jack Dorsey commented on a report that Twitter planned to expand its character limit to 10,000 (private messages already had the longer limit as of July), requiring users to click to see anything beyond 140 characters. In response, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone published a blog post suggesting the possibility of legal action against the hacker. The user interface of the tweet archive browser had a design similar to Twitter's 2010â2014 desktop user interface, even until the feature's removal. [350] Twitter collects personally identifiable information about its users and shares it with third parties as specified in its privacy policy. [3] Dorsey has explained the origin of the "Twitter" title: ...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. Users can also "like" (formerly "favorite") individual tweets. ", "Twitter Buys Company That Mines Chatter About TV", "Buying Bluefin Will Give Twitter a Piece of TV's $72 Billion Ad Market", "Twitter Amplify Will Bring Sponsored Video Clips to Your Feed", "Twitter Launches TV Ad Targeting, Twitter Amplify For Real-Time Videos In Stream", "Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag Posts With TV Shows And Songs", "Facebook opens up its social TV data for the first time in partnership with UK analytics firm SecondSync", "Twitter buys UK 'social TV' firm SecondSync", "Twitter Snags the Last of the Major Networks, ABC, for Amplify", "ITV commercial boss warns brands that 90% of content is 'crap, "Twitter is testing one-tap video playback across its mobile apps for Amplify partner clips", "Why Did Twitter Buy SnappyTV? [473], 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. [361] Security firm Sophos reported that the virus was spread by people doing it for "fun and games", but noted it could be exploited by cybercriminals. Since March 30, 2017, the Twitter handles are outside the tweet itself, therefore they no longer count towards the character limit. [495], The novelist Rick Moody wrote a short story for Electric Literature called "Some Contemporary Characters," composed entirely of tweets. We need somebody to anchor us back there. [165], A word, phrase, or topic that is mentioned at a greater rate than others is said to be a "trending topic". Fabric reached active distribution across 1 billion mobile devices just 8 months after its launch. This feature co-existed with the original browsable tweet archival feature since early 2018, until the latter was removed in August 2019. [510][511], World leaders and their diplomats have taken note of Twitter's rapid expansion and have been increasingly utilizing Twitter diplomacy, the use of Twitter to engage with foreign publics and their own citizens. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!! [285] To continue their advertising campaign, Twitter announced on March 20, 2012, that promoted tweets would be introduced to mobile devices. âHeâs really smart. [366] Tony Wang, the head of Twitter in Europe, said that people who do "bad things" on the site would need to defend themselves under the laws of their own jurisdiction in the event of controversy and that the site would hand over information about users to the authorities when it was legally required to do so. Twitter hit 100 million monthly active users in September 2011. [204] Twitter India rejected the allegations, calling them 'impartial' and working on a 'case-by-case' policy. ", "Social Web Makes TV Viewers 'Chatterboxers'", "France bans Facebook and Twitter promotion on TV", "Twitter Makes Big Acquisition, Buys Social TV Analytics Company Bluefin Labs", "Twitter Confirms Bluefin Labs Acquisition For Social TV", "Twitter Has Become the New TV Guide â Now Can It Offer New TV Rating? [49] The current record as of August 3, 2013 was set in Japan, with 143,199 tweets per second during a television screening of the movie Castle in the Sky[50] (beating the previous record of 33,388, also set by Japan for the television screening of the same movie). [358], In response to Twitter's security breaches, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought charges against the service; the charges were settled on June 24, 2010. Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. The documents projected 2009 revenues of US$400,000 in the third quarter and US$4 million in the fourth quarter along with 25 million users by the end of the year. [98], As part of its means to moderate misinformation, Twitter launched its crowd-sourced Birdwatch program in January 2021. [241] As per August 2018, Twitter light (data saving app) is available in 45 countries. [135][136] Within a year, the Larry the Bird logo underwent a redesign by Stone and Pascuzzo to eliminate the cartoon features, leaving a solid silhouette of Larry the Bird that was used from 2010 through 2012. [314], In the 2018 US election cycle, 96.15% ($295,722) of donations of $200 or more from Twitter employees toward the category of "all federal candidates" went to Democrats, versus 3.85% ($11,850) to Republicans. Between 2010 and 2012, however, Twitter made a number of decisions that were received unfavorably by the developer community. [277] In 2016, Twitter was valued by Forbes at US$15.7 billion. Company CEO Dorsey clarified that internet advertising had great power and was extremely effective for commercial advertisers, the power brings significant risks to politics where crucial decisions impact millions of lives. [421], As of July 30, 2020, Twitter will block URLs in tweets that point to external websites that contain malicious content (such as malware and phishing content) as well or hate speech, speech encouraging violence, terrorism, child sexual exploitation, breaches of privacy, and other similar content that is already banned as part of the content of tweets on the site. [184][185] In September 2016, creation of moments became available to all Twitter users. [581] With Amplify, Twitter runs video highlights from major live broadcasts, with advertisers' names and messages playing before the clip. The service also reserves the right to sell this information as an asset if the company changes hands. The change made these users subject to Irish and European Union data protection laws[396], In 2016, Twitter announced the creation of the Twitter Trust & Safety Council to help "ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter." [406], On October 9, 2020, Twitter took additional steps to counter misleading campaigns ahead of the 2020 US Election. [566] Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey and other executives had been hesitant to evoke a ban on Trump, but was pressured by employees and members of the safety team who had seen Trump's tweets creating chatter from right-wing accounts on Twitter and on right-wing social media sites like Parler. Changes included the ability to see pictures and videos without leaving Twitter itself by clicking on individual tweets which contain links to images and clips from a variety of supported websites including YouTube and Flickr, and a complete overhaul of the interface, which shifted links such as '@mentions' and 'Retweets' above the Twitter stream, while 'Messages' and 'Log Out' became accessible via a black bar at the very top of twitter.com. [34][35] "The Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages," remarked Newsweek's Steven Levy. [496], In 2009, Nielsen Online reported that Twitter had a user-retention rate of forty percent. Later[when? [86] Twitter announced that it had acquired TellApart, a commerce ads tech firm, with $532 million stock. [219], 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,[220] Dreamhack and ESL eSports events,[221] and winning a bid for non-exclusive streaming rights to ten NFL Thursday Night Football games in the 2016 season. https://www.grant-williams⦠Best photo ever. [372] The policy was used again the following day to remove anti-Semitic French tweets with the hashtag #unbonjuif ("a good Jew"). Writers in several outlets unintentionally cited the opinions of Russian Internet Research Agency-affiliated accounts. Twitter often censors trending hashtags that are claimed to be abusive or offensive. Williams shot 32.6% from deep last season at Tennessee on 1.2 attempts per game.Williams⦠", "The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades", "Putting Twitter to the test: assessing outcomes for student collaboration, engagement, and success", "Microblogs in Higher Education â A chance to facilitate informal and process-oriented learning? [267] Twitter is backed by Union Square Ventures, Digital Garage, Spark Capital, and Bezos Expeditions. The decision was also partly due to the fact that the domain twitter.com was already in use, and it was six months after the launch of twttr that the crew purchased the domain and changed the name of the service to Twitter. [172] Under the new limit, glyphs are counted as a variable number of characters, depending upon the script they are from: most European letters and punctuation forms count as one character, while each CJK glyph counts as two so that only 140 such glyphs can be used in a tweet.[172].
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