Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company X Corp., the legal successor of Twitter, Inc. Twitter users outside the United States are legally served by the Ireland-based Twitter International Unlimited Company, which makes these users subject to Irish and European Union data protection laws. On Twitter users post texts, photos and videos known as "tweets". Registered users can tweet, like, "retweet" tweets, and direct message (DM) other registered users, while unregistered users only have the ability to view public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. More information...
According to PR-model, twitter.com is ranked 23rd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 32nd in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before webcitation.org and after latimes.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.