American social networking service

Record 028 · Software · 2006

50%06.28.S

Twitter

Twitter, Inc. (now X Corp.)

“140 characters that became the world's public square and breaking-news wire.”

SMS-era constraint created a new rhetoric. Hashtags, retweets, and verified accounts turned it into media infrastructure.

Official site
  • Public follow graph
  • Hashtag convention
  • Realtime news protocol

What are you doing?