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Twitter, Inc. operated as a prominent digital platform, facilitating instantaneous public conversations and individual self-expression. Its core offering, the Twitter platform itself, empowered users to seamlessly engage with, generate, distribute, and discover a wide spectrum of content. The company also extended its services to advertisers, providing specialized products to promote brands, offerings, and services. These tools featured advanced audience targeting capabilities, leveraging data such as who an account followed and actions taken on the platform, including tweet creation and engagement. Its suite of promotional products included sponsored ads, Twitter Amplify, campaigns aimed at acquiring new followers, and the high-impact "Twitter takeover" option. For content creators, Twitter offered various monetization avenues. These encompassed "Tips," allowing direct, small one-time payments via diverse methods, including Bitcoin; "Super Follows," a monthly subscription service providing exclusive bonus content, early previews, and perks, fostering closer creator-follower relationships; and "Ticketed Spaces," enabling creators to charge for their time and expertise when hosting, speaking, or moderating public discussions within Twitter Spaces. Additionally, Twitter provided resources for developers and data partners. This included the Twitter Developer Platform, a robust environment allowing developers to build tools for individuals and businesses using its public application programming interface (API). The company also offered paid access to its extensive data for partners with commercial use cases. Founded in San Francisco, California, in 2006, Twitter, Inc. transitioned to private ownership on October 27, 2022.