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title: "Twitter, Inc.: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company based in San Francisco, California, which operated and was named for its flagship social media network of the same name prior to its rebrand as X."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-twitter-inc
type: Organization
wikidata: Q1390577
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter,_Inc.
website: https://x.com/home
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# Twitter, Inc.

> Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company based in San Francisco, California, which operated and was named for its flagship social media network of the same name prior to its rebrand as X.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2007-04-19
- Dissolved: 2023-04-04
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Status: closed
- Website: https://x.com/home
- Employees: 7,500 (as of 2021-12-01)
- Also known as: Twitter, TWT Inc., Twttr, Twitter Incorporated
- Industries: Internet industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/Twitter
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/twitter
- github: https://github.com/twitter
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TwitterInc

## Key people

- Noah Glass, founder (American technology entrepreneur)
- Biz Stone, founder (American blogger; co-founder of Twitter)
- Elon Musk, chief executive (American businessman (born 1971)), since 2022-10-27
- Bret Taylor, board member (American businessman), since 2016-01-01
- Martha Lane Fox, board member (Businesswoman; peer of the House of Lords in the UK), since 2016-01-01
- Omid Kordestani, board member (Iranian-American businessman), since 2015-01-01
- Mimi Alemayehou, board member (Ethiopian businesswoman), since 2021-01-01
- Fei-Fei Li, board member (American computer scientist), since 2020-01-01
- Moxie Marlinspike (American computer security expert)
- Peiter Zatko (computer hacker)
- Vijaya Gadde (business executive)
- Sriram Krishnan (Indian-American investor (born 1984))
- Haraldur Ingi Þorleifsson (Icelandic entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist)
- Aliza Knox (COO, Unlockd)
- Manu Cornet (French programmer, cartoonist, writer, and musician)
- Leslie Berland (Twitter's chief marketing officer)

## Revenue

- undated: USD 316.9 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 664.9 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.4 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2.2 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2.5 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2.4 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 3 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 3.5 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 3.7 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 5.1 billion (SEC filing)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Whisper Systems

## Products

- X
- Vine
- Periscope

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Twitter, Inc., dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-twitter-inc#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1390577, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter%2C_Inc.
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001418091

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