


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. was based in San Francisco, California and had 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 application programming interfaces (APIs). Registered users can tweet, like, " retweet" tweets, and direct message (DM) other registered users, while unregistered users only have the ability to view public tweets. On Twitter, users post texts, photos and videos known as "tweets".

Twitter users outside the United States are legally served by the Ireland-based Twitter International Unlimited Company, which makes these users subject to Irish and European Union data protection laws. Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company X Corp., the successor of Twitter, Inc.
