5. What is Twitter?
Twitter is a real-time short messaging service that works
over multiple networks and devices.
Mobile Texting SMS
The Web
Products built on our API
It’s the pulse of what is happening with the people,
organizations, and events you care about—delivered immediately,
wherever you are.
9. “San Diego is surrounded by
raging wildfires, and local
residents are frantic for up-to-
the minute news. But with the
local media overwhelmed
and the national media
offering scant details about
local services, some crafty
web users are turning to
Twitter to get the word out.”
—Wired
“Every moment of the attacks
has been documented in
harrowing detail on Twitter,
with new messages
published from mobile
phones every second as
people described the scenes
around them.”
—The Age
Urgent Events
Worldwide
