| | + | [[File:Pompeo Tweet.PNG|right|350px|thumb|In the night of January 8, 20221, during the purge of conservative voices by Big Tech on social media, U.S. Secretary of State [[Mike Pompeo]] posted this tweet.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/unreal-pompeo-makes-stunning-reveal-of-overnight-tech-purge-changes-on-twitter/</ref>]] |
| | Twitter allows users to follow others, share status updates and / or news via "tweets," or republish another user's status update (referred to as a "retweet"). If a subject is popular enough, it can become a trending topic worldwide, and is displayed on the main website. Corporations can also pay Twitter to have a "Sponsored Trend" appear in the trending topics column. Twitter has made URL shorterners (such as ow.ly, bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and goo.gl, to name a few) popular, as they allow long URLs to be shortened and posted within a tweet. | | Twitter allows users to follow others, share status updates and / or news via "tweets," or republish another user's status update (referred to as a "retweet"). If a subject is popular enough, it can become a trending topic worldwide, and is displayed on the main website. Corporations can also pay Twitter to have a "Sponsored Trend" appear in the trending topics column. Twitter has made URL shorterners (such as ow.ly, bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and goo.gl, to name a few) popular, as they allow long URLs to be shortened and posted within a tweet. |