Twitter

Twitter, now known as X, is a global social media platform founded in 2006. Users post short messages, or "tweets", to discover and share news, entertainment, sports, politics and ideas as they happen. The company describes its service as a digital town square for real-time public conversation, and it is headquartered in Bastrop, Texas.

The platform reaches hundreds of millions of people every day. Its user base spans world leaders and everyday citizens, major corporations and independent creators. The company's technical work sits in microblogging, real-time information dissemination, social networking, digital communications and global content distribution, operating at a scale that must serve instantaneous, worldwide publication.

Twitter's stated mission is to serve the public conversation and give everyone the power to create and share information instantly without barriers. Alongside its role across the news, entertainment, sports, politics and technology sectors, the company has signalled ambitions to expand beyond social media into a broader "everything app" platform, guided by an ethos of an open, real-time digital town square.