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Twitter

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  Twitter, Inc.   is an American social media company based in   San Francisco ,   California . The company operates the   social networking service   Twitter . It previously operated the   Vine   short video app and   Periscope   livestreaming service. Twitter was created by  Jack Dorsey ,  Noah Glass ,  Biz Stone , and  Evan Williams  in March 2006 and was launched that July. By 2012, more than 100 million users tweeted 340 million tweets a day, [13]  and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion  search queries  per day. [14] [15] [13]  The company went  public  in November 2013. By 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. [16] On April 25, 2022, Twitter agreed to  a $44 billion buyout  by  Elon Musk , CEO of  SpaceX  and  Tesla , one of the biggest deals to turn a company private. [17] [18]  On July 8, Musk terminated th...

tiktok

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  TikTok , and its Chinese counterpart   Douyin [3]   ( Chinese :   抖音 ;   pinyin :   Dǒuyīn ), is a   short-form video   hosting service   owned by the Chinese company   ByteDance . [4]   It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes. [5] Since their launches, TikTok and Douyin have gained global popularity. [6] [7]  In October 2020, TikTok surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide. [8] [9] [10]   Morning Consult  named TikTok the third-fastest growing brand of 2020, after  Zoom  and  Peacock . [11]   Cloudflare  ranked TikTok the most popular website of 2021, surpassing  google.com . [12]

instagram

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  Instagram [a]  is a  photo  and  video sharing   social networking service  owned by American company  Meta Platforms . The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with  filters  and organized by  hashtags  and  geographical tagging . Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tag and location, view trending content,  like  photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal  feed . [7] Instagram was originally distinguished by allowing content to be framed only in a square (1:1)  aspect ratio  of 640  pixels  to match the display width of the  iPhone  at the time. In 2015, this restriction was eased with an increase to 1080 pixels. It also added messaging features, the ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature—similar to its main competitor  Snap...