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  2. Twitter - Wikipedia

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    The Twitter Web interface uses the Ruby on Rails framework, deployed on a performance enhanced Ruby Enterprise Edition implementation of Ruby. [needs update] In the early days of Twitter, tweets were stored in MySQL databases that were temporally sharded (large databases were split based on time of posting). After the huge volume of tweets ...

  3. Tweet (social media) - Wikipedia

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    Tweet (social media) A tweet is a former name for a post on social networking service X (formerly Twitter). It is a short status update which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks. Around 80% of all posts are made by 10% of users, averaging 138 posts per month, with the median user making only two ...

  4. Online advertising - Wikipedia

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    Online advertising, also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising that uses the Internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users. [1] Online advertising includes email marketing, search engine marketing (SEM), social media marketing ...

  5. Twitter down: App and website break after being hit by ... - AOL

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    Twitter has broken after seemingly being hit by an unusual bug. Some users were unable to log in or get online at all. But those who were could see something more strange: tweets displaying as if ...

  6. RSS - Wikipedia

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    RSS ( RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) [2] is a web feed [3] that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitor sites for new content ...

  7. Social media - Wikipedia

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    Social media can help to improve an individual's sense of connectedness with others and be an effective communication (or marketing) tool for corporations, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, advocacy groups, political parties, and governments. Social movements use social media for communicating and organizing.

  8. Timeline of Twitter - Wikipedia

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    March 2006 – March 2007. Twitter launches as a product of parent company Odeo. It grows slowly until March 2007, where usage grows dramatically after it is showcased at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) conference. April 2007 – October 2008. Twitter grows rapidly under CEO Jack Dorsey, completing two funding rounds and launching ...

  9. Favicon - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia 's favicon, shown in Firefox. A favicon ( / ˈfæv.ɪˌkɒn /; short for favorite icon ), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, tab icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons [1] associated with a particular website or web page. [1] [2] A web designer can create such an icon and upload it to ...