
The original project code name for the service was twttr, the disemvowelled version of the word twitter, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student at New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. 2006, by Jack Dorsey, envisioning an SMS-based social network 10.1 User accounts with large follower baseĪ sketch, c.8.2.1 Instant, short, and frequent communication.2.1.1 Hashtags, usernames, retweets and replies.1.6 2022–present: Proposed acquisition by Elon Musk.1.1 2006–2007: Creation and initial reaction.Twitter board chair Bret Taylor subsequently pledged to pursue legal action against Musk, launching a lawsuit against him in the Chancery Court of Delaware on July 12.

Musk said on July 8, 2022, that he was terminating the deal, claiming that the social media company had failed to provide information about fake accounts on the platform. On April 25, 2022, the Twitter board of directors agreed to a $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, potentially making it one of the biggest deals to turn a company private.

In practice, the vast majority of tweets are written by a minority of users. By the start of 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". 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. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Audio and video tweets remain limited to 140 seconds for most accounts. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but the limit was doubled to 280 for non- CJK languages in November 2017. Prior to April 2020, services were accessible via SMS. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, however, unregistered users have the ability to only read tweets that are publicly available.

Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets", owned by American company Twitter, Inc.
