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{{quote|"passive aggressive pissy angry village of [[Small Name, Big Ego|spoiled brats and people who think they're famous]]."|The top definition for the site on [[Urban Dictionary]] as of September 30, 2022}}

'''Twitter''' is a microblogging and social networking service created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. On Twitter, registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, which can be anything from mundane reporting on one's life, a wry one-liner, or the start of an Internet campaign that will snowball and end up with international media coverage. Really, for 280 characters - which used to be 140 until near the end of 2017 - there's lots of potential.

'''𝕏''' (called '''Twitter''' before July 24, 2023) is a microblogging and social networking service created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. On Twitter, registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, which can be anything from mundane reporting on one's life, a wry one-liner, or the start of an Internet campaign that will snowball and end up with international media coverage. Really, for 280 characters - which used to be 140 until near the end of 2017 - there's lots of potential.

By 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". At the start of 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users, though in practice the vast majority of tweets are written by a minority of users. In 2022, [https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-bought-twitter-011050455.html the site was acquired by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk] - the circumstances of the acquisition and decisions made following it have been the source of major criticism from the userbase, up to and including even the former CEO, and ultimately [[The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy|made a lot of people very unhappy and been regarded as a bad move]].

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Since its inception, Twitter has gone from just a major source of media attention to a major fixture of society comparable to [[Facebook|<s>Facebook</s> Meta]], and has been used for various purposes from people organizing protests and civil disobedience to governments engaging with foreign publics and their own citizens. Major events tend to be covered rapidly through the system, and practically every celebrity in Hollywood has a Twitter account.

Or at least it used to be that way. In early 2023 [[Elon Musk]] bought Twitter, allegedly with the goal of eliminating a possibly-imaginary "liberal bias" in its content, and immediately began gutting it, doing things like firing 90% of its staff, eliminating the trustworthiness of the "verified user" blue check flag, deciding to charge several thousand US dollars a month for access to the API ~~and~~ outright threatening large corporate users like NPR and advertisers alike for leaving the platform. As of late spring 2023, it appears to be heading for a death spiral -- ~~and~~ whether this is intentional or a consequence of apparently-incompetent management on Musk's part is unclear.

Or at least it used to be that way. In early 2023 [[Elon Musk]] bought Twitter, allegedly with the goal of eliminating a possibly-imaginary "liberal bias" in its content, and immediately began gutting it, doing things like firing 90% of its staff, eliminating the trustworthiness of the "verified user" blue check flag, deciding to charge several thousand US dollars a month for access to the API, outright threatening large corporate users like NPR and advertisers alike for leaving the platform, requiring people to be logged-in to read tweets (which requires people to ''have'' accounts), limiting the number of tweets than can be read each day, and in late-July renaming the platform to "𝕏". As of late-spring 2023, it appears to be heading for a death spiral — [[Hanlon's Razor|whether this is intentional or a consequence of apparently-incompetent management]] on Musk's part is unclear.

You can follow [https://twitter.com/ATTropes All The Tropes on Twitter], or browse [[All The Tropes]] "Twitter-style" in the [[Laconic]] namespace.

Not to be confused with [[X|the approximately dozen other works and creators named X]].

{{Featuredin|Works that originated in part or in whole on Twitter include the following:}}

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* [[First World Problems]]: The trope name originated from a Twitter hashtag, and the site itself is an excellent platform for short moanings about daily life and our miserable existences by people who are generally well-enough off.

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** Parodied by [https://web.archive.org/web/20150118215755/https://twitter.com/BPGLOBALPR a fake BP Twitter] in the wake of the 2011 oil spill catastrophe - the account signed off most of its tweets with #bpcares.

{{quote|We've created something that will affect your children's children. Can YOU say the same about YOUR life? #nailedit #bpcares}}

* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Ever since late-July 2023m when it was renamed to 𝕏.

{{Featuredin|Twitter and fictional derivatives, [[Bland-Name Product]] and otherwise, appear in the following media:}}

==[[Comic Books]]==

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[Birds of Prey (comics)|Birds of Prey]]'' #1 (2010 series), the [[World War II]] time traveler Lady Blackhawk [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure|doesn't get a reference to]] "[[Putting the Band Back Together]]", but has been in the present long enough to understand what Twitter is.

==[[Fan Works]]==

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* ''[[Dragon Ball Z Abridged]]'':

** Dodoria's reveal that [[Big Bad|Frieza]] was the one who [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroyed Planet Vegeta]] and killed off [[Genocide Backfire|''most'' of the Saiyans]] doesn't have the desired impact on Vegeta - turns out when your employer took the [[Villain Ball]] and [[Rule of Funny|posted "lol blewed up filthy monkey planet"]] on [[Space X|SpaceTwitter]], it doesn't leave a lot of room for questions.

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'''Yamcha''': (looking at his phone) Annnnnd he's already trending.}}

==[[Literature]]==

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the YA book ''[[The Unidentified]]'' by Rae Mariz that was published in 2010, Twitter has replaced texting as the main form of communication.

==[[New Media]]==

== [[New Media]] ==

* [[Play By Post Game]] ''[[Celestial Refresh]]'' has Flitter.

==[[Video Games]]==

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto (series)|Grand Theft Auto]]'':

** ''[[Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony]]'' introduces [[Bland-Name Product]] Bleeter, which figures in at least a couple of scenes; one character "bleets" ''[[Skewed Priorities|as he is being murdered]]'', and another mission involves chasing a guy across town while deciphering clues from his asinine posts.

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* [[Scott Kurtz]] [[Web Comic]] ''[[PvP (webcomic)|PvP]]'' has Captain Amazing, an older character of Scott's, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717215205/http://www.pvponline.com/2010/03/05/tweet-titan/ reluctantly adopt] a [[Moe Anthropomorphism|Moe Anthropomorph]] of Twitter named ReTweet as a sidekick.

==[[Web Original]]==

== [[Web Original]] ==

* For [[April Fools' Day]] 2010, the [[TYPE-MOON]] website added hilarious and very in-character [[Bland-Name Product|TMitter]] feeds from their most popular characters to the site, which was retained for April Fools' events in the following years.