# Twitter

X formerly and commonly called Twitter is an online Social media and w:Social networking service operated by the American company w:X Corp., the successor of w:Twitter, Inc. On X, w:registered users can post text, images and videos. Users can also like, repost, quote repost, comment on posts, direct message, video and audio call, bookmark, join lists and communities, and join public Spaces with other registered users. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Posting information to the site is often referred to historically as tweeting, retweeting and quote tweeting/retweeting (depending on the country). Although the service is now called X, the primary website address remains twitter.com as of November 2023, with the x.com domain name redirecting to that address.

## Quotes

* Specific threats of violence or wishing for serious physical harm, death, or disease to an individual or group of people is in violation of our policies. Our new changes include more types of related content including: Accounts that affiliate with organizations that use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes. Groups included in this policy will be those that identify as such or engage in activity — both on and off the platform — that promotes violence. This policy does not apply to military or government entities and we will consider exceptions for groups that are currently engaging in (or have engaged in) peaceful resolution.
** "Enforcing new rules to reduce hateful conduct and abusive behavior", (18 December 2017).
* We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family, we've been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward, and we hope to have those changes in place shortly.
** Response to a letter in which Timothy Klausutis, husband of Lori Klausutis, demanded Donald Trump to stop exploiting his late wife and urged Twitter to take down Trump's tweets about her. As quoted in "Lori Klausutis death: Twitter will not remove Trump's 'horrifying lies'", BBC, (26 May 2020)
* Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of w:White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021. As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this process is being done in close consultation with the w:National Archives and Records Administration.
** According to "Twitter Will Transfer POTUS Account to Biden in January'", Variety, (Nov 20, 2020)
* Voter fraud of any kind is exceedingly rare in the US, election experts confirm
** "US elections LIVE"
* ! This claim about election fraud is disputed
** A common notice on the "Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump twitter account", (December 13, 2020)
* As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy
* This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.
** "Twitter locks Trump’s account and threatens to ban him", The Independent, (January 6, 2021)
* After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence
** "Twitter permanently suspends Trump from platform", CBC, (January 8, 2020)
* Elon’s appointment to the board was to become officially effective on 4/9, but Elon shared that same morning that he would not be joining the board. I believe this is for the best.
** Parag Agrawal tweeted according to "Elon Musk no longer joining Twitter's board of directors", (Apr 11, 2022)
* HB20 would compel platforms to disseminate all sorts of objectionable viewpoints, such as Russia’s propaganda claiming that its invasion of Ukraine is justified, ISIS propaganda claiming that extremism is warranted, neo-Nazi or KKK screeds denying or supporting the Holocaust, and encouraging children to engage in risky or unhealthy behavior like eating disorders.
** "Supreme Court blocks Texas social media law that tech companies warned would allow hateful content to run rampant", (PUBLISHED TUE, MAY 31 20224:56 PM EDT UPDATED TUE, MAY 31 2022 8:19 PM EDT)
* I don’t have confidence in management.
** Elon Musk "Twitter CEO Among Top Executives Departing as Musk Takes Over", (October 27, 2022, 5:42 PM PDT)

## Quotes about Twitter
### A - H

* Too many twits make a twat.
** David Cameron, Absolute radio, "David Cameron says sorry for 'twat' comment during radio interview", The Guardian, (29 July 2009).
* I Don't Look at Twitter Because It Doesn't Tell Me Anything.
** Noam Chomsky, interview with Byline.com, "Chomsky: I Don't Look at Twitter Because It Doesn't Tell Me Anything", (April 14, 2015).
* Twitter hates comedy. It hates truth. It hates free speech. And it hates the American People, because they refuse to be docile sheep.
** Ted Cruz Tweet
* They [Twitter] are not principled in this. They have so much garbage and filth on that platform all the time. They did not censor people when they are using those platforms or the rioting that occurred over the summer.
** Ron DeSantis, as quoted in "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to fine ‘Big Tech’ $100,000 per day for censoring political candidates", (February 3, 2021)
* A million fucking message boards, email, Twitter, any number of free tools, being limited only by time and your imagination? If I’d had the internet in 1988 I WOULD OWN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY BY NOW AND WOULD PUT HUNDREDS OF YOU TO DEATH EACH DAY JUST FOR FUN AND IT WOULD BE THE LAW.
** Warren Ellis in Warren Ellis.com, entry 7955, comment 298257
* That is the central tenet of twenty- first-century Western philosophy: ‘I tweet, therefore I am.’
** John O'Farrell, The Man Who Forgot His Wife, (16 March 2012)
* Running an ad-free website where millions of people gather every day to discuss facts and update scores of pages is a monumental task. It’s incredible that Wikipedia doesn’t often go down and has few technical problems. Most of the time, Wikipedia works without issue. The same is not true for X (formerly known as Twitter).
** Matthew Gault, “Elon Musk Still Doesn’t Understand How Wikipedia Works”, Vice, (October 23, 2023)
* Regardless, this new research shows that Wikipedia editors of different opinions have strived for consensus over time. That's opposed to Facebook or Twitter, where people are siloed into their own self-reinforcing echo chambers. ... Consider this a version of the “miracle of aggregation” – that large groups of people are able to act rationally and solve problems despite having vastly different interests.
** Robert Gebelhoff, “Science shows Wikipedia is the best part of the Internet”, The Washington Post, (19 October 2016)
* That you cannot argue with 30 million people on Twitter I will grant you, which is why nobody is asking anybody to do that. But do you know what you can do with 30 million people on Twitter? You can wait one afternoon. People can be ruthless on social media, but they also have the long-term memory of goldfish. The whole cycle—the controversy, the apology, the rash of takes about the apology, the rash of takes about the takes about the apology, and the redemption—lives its lifespan so quickly you could miss one completely if you flew from New York to LA and didn’t spring for the Gogo in-flight WiFi. If you make a piece of art, and Twitter registers its displeasure with it, you can either stomp your feet and quit the game forever, or—I promise you this is true—go to the gym for a couple hours.
** Dave Holmes, "Todd Phillips Cancel Woke Culture Comedy Changing", Esquire, (October 2, 2019)
* The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio's values, and we have severed our business relationship with him.
** Alan Horn, press statement, (20 July 2018)

### I - L

* No official directive at all, and I don’t think I’ve ever tweeted anything that bad. But it’s nine years of stuff written largely off the cuff as ephemera, if trolls scrutinizing it for ammunition is the new normal, this seems like a “why not?” move.
** Rian Johnson, Twitter, (July 25, 2018, 5:52 PM).
* By censoring independent media outlets such as the Justice Report, Twitter is stifling the distribution of factual information cultivated by the same ‘citizen journalists‘ that CEO Elon Musk claims to be a “big fan” of, and who he claims to want to elevate and promote on his new platform. In the last few months, the Justice Report has enjoyed great success performing acts of citizen journalism—from being the only media outlet to accurately cover the trial of BLM terrorist, Darrell Brooks, to releasing a viral article exposing a cover-up of a Black-on-White knife attack at a high school in Forth Worth.
** "Elon Musk’s Twitter jettisons pretense of Free Speech – BANS the Justice Report, NJP, and prevents users from posting links to third-party websites", Justice Report, (DECEMBER 29, 2022)

### M - Z

* I think there are times that the other side does it to get you caught.
** Zac Moffatt, [Twitter trend: Fakes, (November 6, 2014)
* There’s no way that this is just happening randomly.
** Zac Moffatt, [Twitter trend: Fakes, (November 6, 2014)
* I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump
** Elon Musk "Twitter braces for Donald Trump’s return as Elon Musk takes over platform", (May 2022)
* Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn. We need roughly half of our revenue to be subscription.
** "Elon Musk warns Twitter could face bankruptcy as top executives flee", CBS/AP, ("NOVEMBER 11, 2022/2:09 PM)
* Much of the stuff on Twitter or in op-ed pieces is all the more embarrassing for having been written from a presumed position of great intellectual superiority...
** Brian Reynolds Myers, "And Then What?", Sthele Press, (6 June 2018)
* People are always criticizing Twitter. "Twitter is crazy!" they say. I think that's misguided. Twitter is simply an avenue -- there are many -- by which people reveal who they are.
** Jay Nordlinger, Twitter post, (5 September 2018)
* I complained to Twitter about the man who, pretending to be me, commended the Charleston racist murderer. Twitter responded: “We have determined that it’s not in violation of Twitter’s impersonation policy.” I felt a flash of rage. Every time an online shaming occurred Twitter and Google made money. Whereas those of us doing the actual shaming? We got nothing. Twitter suddenly felt uncaring, intimidating, even dangerous. We were unpaid shaming interns for a company that didn’t care about us. I quit Twitter. The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.
** Jon Ronson, "Jon Ronson: how the online hate mob set its sights on me", The Guardian, (20 December 2015)
* If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
** Ai Weiwei in: Osnos, Evan. “It’s Not Beautiful: An Artist Takes On the System”, New Yorker, (May 24, 2010), 54–63.
* Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
** Ai Weiwei in: Ventura, Catherine. “"Is Twitter a Human Right? One Chinese Activist Thinks So", Huffington Post, March 17, 2012.
* If you’ve ever been to the monkey house in one of those awful downscale zoos, you know what monkeys — these particular monkeys — are like: They jerk off and fling poo all day, generally using the same hand for both, and they don’t do a hell of a lot else, unless there’s McDonald’s. All day: jerk off, fling poo, jerk off, fling poo, jerk, fling, jerk, fling. Twitter, basically.
** Kevin D. Williamson, "How Twitter radicals are controlling corporate America", The New York Post, (27 July 2019).

## Dialogue

    Marchese: You’ve talked about the negative effects of the “Twitter mob” on your show, but you’ve also talked about how most people don’t care what’s on Twitter. If people don’t care about the Twitter conversation, why bother railing against it?
    Maher: Because the Twitter-mob mentality has an effect on the rest of the world. Everyone fears the wrath of the Twitter mob and the social justice warriors and the P.C. police. Religions always talk about the one true religion. Now on the left we have the one true opinion. If you go against that, you do so at your peril. That’s why the air on the left is becoming stale. I railed for years against the Fox News bubble, and that is as strong as ever, but I didn’t think it would get this bad on the left. Comedians are afraid to make jokes in clubs, because somebody will tape it and send it out on Twitter and get the mob after you.
   * Bill Maher in “Bill Maher on the Perils of Political Correctness”, by David Marchese, The New York Times, (Sept. 30, 2019).

## See also

* Brevity
* Elon Musk

## External links

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* Article at Wikipedia
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* Learning resources from Wikiversity
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* Database entry #P2002 on Wikidata
* Official website
* ↑ Conger, Kate (August 3, 2023). "So What Do We Call Twitter Now Anyway?" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.