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Tweet (social media) A user tweeting about bugs. A tweet is a short status update on the social networking site X (formerly Twitter), which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks. Around 80% of all tweets are made by 10% of users, averaging 138 tweets per month, with the median user making only two ...
If a user has Safety Mode enabled, authors of tweets that are identified by Twitter's technology as being harmful or exercising uninvited behavior will be temporarily unable to follow the account, send direct messages, or see tweets from the user with the enabled functionality during the temporary block period.
In August 2019, Jack Dorsey's account was hacked by using Twitter's SMS to tweet feature to send crude messages. Days later, the ability to send a tweet via SMS was temporarily turned off. In April 2020, Twitter discontinued the ability to receive SMS messages containing the text of new tweets in most countries. Character limits
Twitter use increased by 43% on the day of the United States 2008 election. In 2009, the Republican Party in Connecticut set up 33 fake Twitter accounts in the names of the Democratic Party members of the state legislature. The Republicans used the accounts to send out tweets in the names of the Democrats.
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
A desktop application which allows users to filter and group their own and others' tweets. The iPhone version was released on June 16, 2009. Twitterfall: iOS and website Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest 'tweets' of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from the top of the page in near ...
List of most-liked tweets. The most-liked tweet was posted by the account of American actor Chadwick Boseman, announcing his death in 2020. Members of South Korean band BTS have posted 17 of the 30 most-liked tweets. This list contains the top 30 tweets with the most likes on the social networking platform X (formerly Twitter).
X Pro, formerly and commonly known as TweetDeck, is a paid proprietary social media dashboard for management of X (formerly Twitter) accounts. Originally an independent app, TweetDeck was subsequently acquired by Twitter Inc. and integrated into Twitter's interface. It had long ranked as one of the most popular Twitter clients by percentage of ...