In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as 'the SMS of the Internet'. By 2012, more than 100 million users produced 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. Its former parent company, Twitter, Inc., 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 post, like, repost, comment and quote posts, and direct message other registered users.
On Twitter, users can post texts, images and videos known as 'tweets'. Twitter, currently rebranding to X, is an online social media and social networking service operated by the American company X Corp., the successor of Twitter, Inc.
