The original project code name for the service was twttr, 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 On December 20, 2022, Musk announced he would step down as CEO once a replacement had been found.

for US$44 billion, gaining control of the platform. On October 27, 2022, business magnate Elon Musk acquired Twitter, Inc. In 2020, it was estimated that approximately 48 million accounts (15% of all accounts) were fake. In practice, the vast majority of tweets are tweeted 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 tweeted 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. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Registered users can tweet, like, ' retweet' tweets and direct message (DM), while unregistered users only have the ability to view public tweets. Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users send and respond publicly or privately texts, images and videos known as 'tweets'.

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