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Twitter

LC control no.n 2009031956
Descriptive conventionsrda
Uniform title headingTwitter
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See alsoContinued by (work): X (Social networking service)
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Other standard no.Q918
176777970
20b7b622-c5a1-42c3-a4ea-9154acf72eb7
Form of workMicroblogs Online social networks
Microblogging service
Place of originUnited States
Found inAll a twitter : a personal and professional guide to social networking with Twitter, 2010: galley (social networking site that allows140-character-sized blog posts)
Its home page, August 17, 2023 (X)
   <https://twitter.com/>
Ivanova, Irina. Twitter is now X, via CBS News website, updated July 31, 2023, viewed on August 17, 2023 (the app formerly known as Twitter announced a name change last week. X.com now redirects to Twitter.com; the company's headquarters now sports a flashing X where there was once was a bird logo, and the app now appears as "X" in the Apple and Google app stores)
Mac, Ryan. From Twitter to X, via New York times website, posted July 24, 2023, viewed on August 17, 2023 (The tech billionaire [Elon Musk], who bought Twitter last year, renamed the social platform X.com on its website and started replacing the bird logo with a stylized version of the 24th letter of the Latin alphabet; Mr. Musk had long said he might make the name change, but he hastened the process in a tweet early Sunday when he declared that "soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds." He has said he hopes to turn Twitter into an "everything app" called X, which would encompass not only social networking but also banking and shopping)
Walrath-Holdridge, Mary. X's and Xeets: what we know about Twitter's rebrand, new logo so far, via USA today website, posted July 25, 2023, updated August 1, 2023, viewed on August 17, 2023 (the social media network formerly known as Twitter will be rebranded simply to X, a change that has already been reflected on the desktop, where the spot once reserved for the blue and white bird logo has been replaced with a gray-scale letter X)
BBC things website, August 17, 2023 (Twitter; American microblogging service)
Wikipedia, August 17, 2023 (Twitter, now rebranded as X, is an online social media and social networking service operated by the American company X Corp., the successor of Twitter, Inc.)
Wikidata, August 17, 2023: Q918 (Twitter; former American social networking site currently known as X) Q120836295 (X; American social networking platform, formerly known as Twitter)