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The Revenue sources section has a bit about "promoted tweets", but I searched the article for "sponsored" and got no matches. Might be interesting (and noteworthy enough) to mention Sponsored Tweets. A quick Google search shows me that at least one company (AP; [1]) and at least one actor ( Michael Ian Black; [2]) have published Sponsored Tweets. The company itself about it here, the FTC about it here. I don't really feel like writing a concept text about it myself, but maybe someone else feels like it, therefore I decided to add this information to the Talk page. -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 18:21, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Twitter's active users are close to 300 million. http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/23/twitter-launches-twitter-amplify-for-real-time-videos-in-stream-partnering-with-bbc-fox-fuse-and-weather-channel/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.231.21.56 ( talk) 20:18, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
Lots of data, especially in the "Usage" section, is from 2009. I don't think four year old data is good enough on such a dynamic subject, and in the instances where more recent information has been added in a following paragraph, the old data should be removed or maybe in some cases moved to the "history" section. Examples:
Maybe an editor more knowledgeable about the subject than me is interested in doing some research and updating? Mumiemonstret ( talk) 08:54, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
I wanted to create a redirect to Twitter from Tony Wang after reading this news story in which he is quoted. I see he is also referenced in the article. However, unfortunately the page Tony Wang is subject to full protection, so I can't do it. Could someone with admin powers perhaps take a look? Cheers Paul MacDermott ( talk) 13:05, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
"...with additional servers and offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio" should read "...with additional servers and offices in New York City, Boston, Atlanta, and San Antonio"
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This Criticism section was trimmed per WP:RECENTISM and WP:NOTNEWSPAPER. The Jane Austen banknote material is not of major relevance here, and can be approached via the citations. This has been an ongoing issue for some time, eg this CNET article shows a tweet containing a bomb threat to Time magazine Europe Editor Catherine Mayer.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 19:32, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
So the problem is ongoing. How long does the problem have to continue before it stops being a recent news item and becomes ongoing criticism meriting a section in Wikipedia? I'm not getting into a serious edit war now.
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I think that a reference to Florian Weber should be added in the History section, possibly replacing:
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Citing this article: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-twitter-was-founded-2011-4?op=1
Hazpotts ( talk) 01:34, 25 July 2013 (UTC) Done @ Hazpotts:. Mdann52 ( talk) 16:10, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
This does not need to be in the lead section per WP:RECENTISM. Twitter has not given a timescale for this and it has yet to happen, so WP:CRYSTAL applies here.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 13:46, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
The main body of text in the article is now over 100 kB, which has issues with WP:SIZERULE. The article may need to be split and also needs some trimming. The IPO section was trimmed because a lot of it was WP:CRYSTAL and WP:NOTNEWSPAPER. Details about this should be left to the citations. Quotes from company spokespersons are also best avoided per WP:PRIMARY.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 17:28, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Please correct the office list of Boston, San Antonio, to include the Detroit office. Credible reference is CBS 60 minutes, among various others. on the twitter corp page, we don't list our office locations. Sfdoctorp ( talk) 06:15, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
https://twitter.com/JobDetroit
http://www.freep.com/article/20120404/NEWS01/120404018/Twitter-to-open-office-in-downtown-Detroit
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57607205/detroit-on-the-edge/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfdoctorp ( talk • contribs) 07:09, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
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Replace the twitter was born by brain storming session at Odeo to Jack Dorsey getting the Idea of Status update of Emergency Vehicles from a Police Scanner. http://tusb.stanford.edu/2011/05/jack-dorsey-on-the-history-of-twitter-and-square.html ````
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The entry states that "Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST): "just setting up my twttr". Noah Glass actually had the first tweet according to his Twitter page, which is the same tweet "just setting up my twttr" but is time stamped at 1:00 PM Pacific Standard Time on March 21, 2006. See https://twitter.com/noah.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhlambdin ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Noah's tweet is ten minutes later. Maybe confusion over the time zone caused this.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 16:30, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Headline: "Twitter Rally Races Higher"
"Twitter shares have nearly tripled since their initial public offering last month, including an almost 5% gain on Thursday, making the microblogging site's IPO one of the best-performing this year." — FYI, Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 06:21, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Justine Sacco's getting fired for a bad tweet probably deserves a mention. [5] WP:BLP1E says Being in the news does not in itself mean that someone should be the subject of a Wikipedia article (emphasis mine), not that they shouldn't be mentioned in any article. See also Dooced. NE Ent 04:35, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Also see IAC_(company)#Sacco_Incident and Talk:IAC_(company)#Sacco_Incident. I am unconvinced that the incident merits a section in the IAC_(company) article. Thanks, JoeSperrazza ( talk) 14:54, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Not enough detail to be it's own separate article. TheEpTic ( talk) 13:14, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
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The sentence in the first paragraph that reads: 'Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them' is incorrect and misleading because one has to be registered in order to even read tweets. Therefore the sentence should be removed, and for additional clarity the word 'registered' should be inserted between 'enables' and 'users' in the first sentence.
I have tried to access twitter without being registered and ascertained that it does not work.
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There is no mention of Whisper Systems in the "Privacy and security" section (or anywhere else in the article, for that matter). It was acquired by Twitter in 2011. [7] -- Dodi 8238 ( talk) 15:39, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Headine-1: How Boolean Search Improves Your Social Media Monitoring
QUOTE: “ Many of the main social networks accept some form of traditional Boolean search operators, as well as their own, to help users identify specific information about content, brand mentions, even other users.” [This article has five tips, and high praise.] — Charles Edwin Shipp ( talk) 19:32, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20140403.aspx Here even the U.S. State Department found it effective to assign people to respond to terrorist tweets.
Do we have a better source for this? Hcobb ( talk) 11:23, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
>> Turkey urges social media firms to pay tax Lihaas ( talk) 13:30, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
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Although Twitter is the first to use SMS to broadcast texts, the University of Michigan used a program called B-page written in C, to broadcast the same amount of information to text pagers in 1998. Sm0knGun ( talk) 00:56, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
Currently in the lead paragraph there is a list of local offices referenced by ...#cite-note-10 this could more appropriately be referenced to https://about.twitter.com/company & include non-American offices — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.103.131.195 ( talk) 01:52, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
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The following sources are not returning the correct page. I have provided the source number, the incorrect link and the correct link below:
6. engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faster_1656.html - https://blog.twitter.com/2011/twitter-search-now-3x-faster 13. engineering.twitter.com/2011/05/engineering-behind-twitters-new-search.html - https://blog.twitter.com/2011/engineering-behind-twitter%E2%80%99s-new-search-experience
Twitter have not implemented an automatic redirect on these links.
There are more, but as this is my first edit I'll work on them slowly. Thank you.
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Please add additional event under Growth section right before "On June 4, 2014, Twitter announced that it will acquire." Please add On March 27, 2014, Twitter announced a new music strategy [1]> but did not provide further details on the strategy but industry experts [2] predict the strategy involves pushing Twitter towards a music platform. Ec2929 ( talk) 02:57, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Same blog - same problem. The young lady writes intelligently, but is not a reliable source for the claims. Thanks, Older and ... well older ( talk) 15:11, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Re this edit: the material about GCHQ is being added to multiple articles in a careless way. [8] is a primary source document which establishes no context for the reader. There should be a secondary source discussing this material. In its current form, Wikipedia is being spammed with multiple mentions of a single source here. Unless another source can be found, this is being blown up out of all proportion.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 19:21, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
https://twitter.com/Pontifex Pope Francis has one, should be listed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.81.199.193 ( talk) 07:53, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
"Edward Cramer" is not a founder (that I know of/can find with a quick google search), and should be removed from that section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.126.73.33 ( talk) 05:23, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
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I want to change the statistices of most foloowed accounts. please allow me to do so. Ralu7 ( talk) 15:29, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
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The number of offices around the world is no longer 25 it is now 26 after Twitter's purchase of Gnip http://blogs.denverpost.com/techknowbytes/2014/05/12/boulder-celebrate-closing-twitters-purchase-gnip-public-event-june-4/13608/ 157.182.213.36 ( talk) 04:31, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Re this edit: For me, the citation given is a login page which does not mention the problem (screenshot here). Also, I couldn't find anything about this in a reliable secondary source. If you are having problems with signing up or logging in to Twitter, it would be best to ask them why.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 11:03, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Twitter is currently denying signups from personal computers in some places, and prompting users to instead use Twitter from mobile phones with the following message: [11]
Signup Denied
We cannot create a new account from this computer. Download the free Twitter app for your Android or iPhone, and start using Twitter on your phone instead.
Hello, I did some research into this, and it looks like an automated system to stop the creation of spam accounts. If you use a domain like @gmail.com, @hotmail.com or another legit one, this message is less likely to appear. If you use a disposable e-mail address, like GuerrillaMail or Sharklasers, you get this everytime. To assertain this, just change the e-mail of an account (already established) to anything from GuerrillaMail/Sharklasers/Spam4me, and the account will be suspended in seconds (you need to answer a CAPTCHA to get it back, simple stuff). This doesn't seem to be a widespread occurrence, so that's probably why no tech sources make a reference to it. 189.90.30.2 ( talk) 02:24, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
The SMS limit on text is only as low as 140 when an 8-bit character set is used. If the text being sent encodes in a 7-bit set, then the limit is 160. I wonder why Twitter didn't make use of this. It's easy to parse the tweet being composed so far and keep the remaining characters limit starting at 160 and only drop it by 20 if someone enters a character that's beyond normal (original 7 bit) ASCII range (like thësë önës). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.217.181.89 ( talk) 06:29, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
I am interested in sensor networks being run through Twitter. I've not been able to find out much about this type of automation, in which sensors from the field send data out via Twitter to followers. The most famous example is @BeijingAir, but I think there must be others and would like to know about these.
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I want to add in information regarding Twitters new built in video service. Wikiguy349 ( talk) 06:06, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
I have seen some cleanup banners around the page that were planted recently. I will try and look into seeing if these are still valid, and possibly create a reassessment, but considering that I don't really have the time to devote my entire day to the issue, I thought I'd tell other Wikipedians about it. Maybe a couple people could come here and we could work out the issue? I don't know. I'm going to work on it though. Thatguytestw 00:23, 3 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatguytestw ( talk • contribs)
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Change number of employees to 3600. Source: https://about.twitter.com/company Fluffy379 ( talk) 13:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
your twitter will suck butt if you don't follow me, therefore, follow me @LovableMatthew
Exactly what IS twitter? --- Dagme ( talk) 18:41, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
You were than happy to include one for FaceBook and MySpace, but nothing for this godawful social network. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.130.207.205 ( talk) 05:45, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
I think that this would benefit from a description of what it means to "follow" on Twitter. And that Follow (disambiguation) would benefit from a line pointing to that description. Tx. -- Epeefleche ( talk) 09:37, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Perhaps a timeline picture would be more useful than the log in?-- 88.104.132.120 ( talk) 23:06, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
I think that you should try it-- 88.104.133.87 ( talk) 18:40, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
The article says:
"Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets"."
I don't know much about Twitter, but I knew that. My question is: I understand that images can be sent on twitter. Clearly any reasonable image would have a far larger file size than a 140 character text file. So, my question is: What is the point? --- Dagme ( talk) 01:41, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
This is confusing.Please clarify-- 88.104.132.1 ( talk) 17:56, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
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Dick Costolo will no longer be CEO. Instead interim CEO will be Jack Doresy as of July 1 Tweet Manuels World ( talk) 20:19, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Advice needed on a proposed addition to the Twitter page.
Lawyers are currently investigating proposed Class Actions in respect of Twitter activities. These will include allegations of Abuse of a Dominant Position with a complaint to the EU Commission; and a separate European Court of Human Rights action alleging Censorship and thereby contravention of Article 10 (the right to freedom of expression). The basis of this is that Twitter has suspended the Write feature on 2 accounts which published INDEPENDENT Opinion Polls and Public Opinion Surveys on the forthcoming EU Referendum in the United Kingdom. It is suggested that Twitter came under pressure from British Government agencies as these public opinion surveys were potentially damaging to the position of UK Ministers.
Arguably such an addition of information on the Twitter page would be in the public interest, and thus comments and suggestions on how best one might include this information on the Twitter page would be greatly appreciated. BDFPLAW ( talk) 17:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC)BDFP Law Firm-- BDFPLAW ( talk) 17:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BDFPLAW ( talk • contribs) 06:57, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
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Minimal notability outside of involvement with Twitter § FreeRangeFrog croak 20:47, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
This is how I am currently seeing the main page https://twitter.com/ . It uses a blue bird on a white background. I am puzzled by File:Twitter homepage.png which is used in the infobox, because I have never seen this. Can anyone explain why this discrepancy is happening?-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 17:41, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
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Please add this (if appropriate) to the “Issues and controversies” section:-
On or about the 17 June 2015 Twitter, Inc. (and/or other Twitter operating entities) censored or blocked 2 Twitter accounts operated by Journalists which published or disseminated independent Public Opinion Polls and Surveys derived from original data researched by an independent Public Opinion / Surveying research company. [1] [2] It was originally reported that Twitter had been coerced by the British Government because these surveys concerned public opinion regarding the Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union. Subsequently a British Government official confirmed to journalists that the censorship was orchestrated by UK Independence Party (UKIP) political activists whom are anti-UK government and anti-European Union. The British Government’s GCHQ agency monitors all Twitter activity, including the UKIP activists.
The Twitter General Counsel, Vijaya Gadde, was contacted by a law firm, and then a journalist covering the story; however Twitter failed to respond. An investigation [3] is now being conducted into Twitter companies, inter alia, Twitter Inc, Twitter International Company, and associated entities, in respect of breaches of European Union, Council of Europe, and national legislation and provisions.
The basis of this investigation is to evaluate evidence which impacts on one or more Class Actions which would allege:
1. Abuse of a dominant position, contrary to Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
2. Censorship or Restriction of Freedom of Expression as guaranteed by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Given Twitter’s precarious finances any adverse publicity which would impact on potential advertisers, and/or any substantial fine imposed on Twitter by the European Commission for breaches of Article 102, may drive the company out of business. If the matter reaches the European Court of Human Rights, as with the Google case, Twitter will be subject to more regulation and will have to make significant changes in their operating procedures and public accountability.
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Bravo. To hell with potential threats to Freedom of the Press. Long Live Pedantry. BDFPLAW ( talk) 14:58, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Awaiting an acceptable user name
In common slang: A twit is a fool, an idiot. A twitterer: a houswife with nothing to do but spin housewife tails. In victorian times, you would call it, ´the vibrator´ (as per the movie). In groupi-ism terms: the follow you without effort machine, so that a woman can know when your next concert is, know whom your new consort is, and be able to move in to get your baby right in between, or shoot you dead because of a attachment severed.
It´s a damned fool way to die (Melbourne metro jingle). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.174.60 ( talk) 00:42, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Under controversies, kindly place the number of individuals dead, by and through asuming massive support where in reality it was nothing but a few twitters retwitting and linking en mass, as per a troyan worm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.174.60 ( talk) 02:13, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
It is quite a bit more interesting to know where exactly those funds went into. Purchasing of real estate, for example, is in no form nor manner in any relationship to computer systems to maintain a network. The SEC information contains this, or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.174.60 ( talk) 02:52, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
" Twitterati" needs more of an explanation. Perhaps a relationship or non-relationship to literati should be stated/explained. -- Burst of unj ( talk) 08:41, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
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/Periscope_(app) is a subsidiary of twitter just as vine is. Jakemichaeldrew ( talk) 13:15, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
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Twitter’s leadership has consistently been criticized for the company’s chronically flagging stock price, “sluggish user growth and its repeated failures to make its products more appealing.” [4] Venture capitalist Peter Thiel called Twitter “a horribly mismanaged company — probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there.” [5] [6] [7]
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The last point in the features included with verified accounts is not a feature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.115.37.27 ( talk) 13:14, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
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The leadership timeline is really confusing and doesn't explain how Dorsey became CEO again. Manys ( talk) 18:39, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Twitter recently re-categorized its iOS app as a "News" app rather than "Social networking". I think this article should reflect the change in the lead, because the service has gained distinction for its ability to cover live events. But I wanted to discuss it here first. My thoughts are to change the lead into "an online social networking and news service". Source: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/28/11530550/twitter-social-networking-news-app-facebook. Thoughts? :) LocalNet ( talk) 20:53, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
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Twitter chats are live conversations on Twitter around a preannounced hashtagged topic. Twitter chats are scheduled on a particular day of the week or month at a preset time. One example is #jobhuntchat on Mondays at 7 PM Pacific time. You can find a list of existing Twitter chats here: http://tweetreports.com/twitter-chat-schedule/. Some of these chats have moderators. #JobHuntChat is moderated by recruiters. Some chats have questions preannounced on a numbered list. Twitter users will refer to them as Q1 or Q5 in their tweets during the Twitter Chat time. Answers are listed as A1 or A5 depending on which question number they answer. Alternatively, questions are numbered as they occur during the chat. Chrisleffler ( talk) 22:43, 29 July 2016 (UTC)Christine Leffler
Net profits are listed as +521 million dollars, even though the financial statement shows this should be -521 million dollars, for a loss that is.
See reference to current balance sheet: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&fstype=ii&ei=qzRgU8CuL4mSqwHgRg
Note that Twitter has never made an annual profit, so listing them as profitable on the summary table is quite misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.209.117.177 ( talk) 02:37, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
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Barack Obama’s follower count is wrong. It should be 77,338,576 not 757,327,956 as mentioned currently. Please fix it or let me edit.
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After all the years Twitter is being called a Social Networking service, but in reality is a Social Broadcasting service where a subject (person, entity, event, etc) can broadcast and the followers or viewers can watch it. In true sense anyone without a Twitter account can watch or view the Broadcast. So I would suggest to change to make the necessary adjustment to reflect the true identity of Twitter. In essence this is not a networking site, I have never been able to find new connections on Twitter instead I have able to find “What’s Happening Now” in a second.
Lets discuss the the right things to do for sharing true knowledge about Twitter.
Thanks, Hktt ( talk) 16:46, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
Perhaps the most important moment in Twitter's history was when Janis Krums took a photo of the plane that had made an emergency landing in the Hudson river in January 2009. [18] [19] Krums was not a professional journalist, but his iPhone photograph is by far the most famous coverage of the incident. The incident gave international media attention to Twitter, and showed that things were changing in how news is reported. The mainstream media often uses material from Twitter, but a site that allows anyone to publish anything is not a traditional news source. As for the Wikipedia article, it has to go by what reliable secondary sources have said. Twitter has been variously described as a microblogging service, a social network and a news service, which is Twitter's preferred definition of itself nowadays. The current wording in the WP:LEAD says that Twitter is an "online social networking service" which I don't think is ideal as Twitter is distinctly different from sites like Facebook which are largely about social networking. Merriam-Webster defines news as "1: new information or a report about something that has happened recently 2: information that is reported in a newspaper, magazine, television news program, etc. 3: someone or something that is exciting and in the news" and Twitter carries all three of these things. I think that the wording in the lead could be tweaked to allow for this.-- ♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 05:05, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
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In the long vertical box at the top right giving the summary information about the company, the 'Net Income' is currently stated as 'US$521 million'.
This is wrong. In particular, the rather important minus sign '-' has been omitted.
The footnote [3] to the right of that figure will bring you to page that confirms the LOSS for 2015 of US$521 million'.
In other words:
'US$521 million' should be corrected to '-US$521 million' MaximumCorrectness ( talk) 03:40, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Having just posted concerning the incorrect 'Net Income' included in the article, I have noted that someone else posted about that exact same problem in September of 2016.
FOUR MONTHS AGO!
This is a major misstatement about the Net Income of a publicly traded firm! And no one can be bothered to fix it?
This 'semi-protected' stuff has clearly entirely broken down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaximumCorrectness ( talk • contribs) 03:51, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Really, this is the elephant in the room. No mention of Trump, perhaps the most famous twitter user of all time? I feel like he warrants a mention in this article. The first and only president-elect to personally tweet - and he has done so over 200 times since being elected. Crazy Eddy ( talk) 23:32, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Under 'Format', it says For more about tweets, see Tweet. But this just links-back to Twitter. Valetude ( talk) 09:09, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
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