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Q1: Why don't you rename this article to "X"?

A1: For recognizability and ease of searching, Wikipedia articles use the name most commonly used in reliable sources, which is not necessarily the official name used by its owner or its current name. For example, we use Kanye West instead of Ye (musician), Statue of Liberty instead of Liberty Enlightening the World, and United Kingdom instead of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Renaming this page "X" would also require some form of parenthetical disambiguation, whereas Wikipedia prefers the use of natural disambiguation if possible.

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March 10, 2007	Proposed deletion	Kept
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July 19, 2009	Peer review	Reviewed
September 1, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept
June 13, 2010	Good article reassessment	Kept
January 14, 2023	Good article reassessment	Kept
July 13, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
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This article has previously been nominated to be moved.

Discussions:

Not moved, 24 July 2023, from Twitter to X (social media), see discussion.
Not moved, 31 July 2023, from Twitter to X (social network), see discussion.
Not moved, 30 August 2023, from Twitter to X (social network), see discussion.
Not moved, 24 October 2023, from Twitter to X (social network), see discussion.
Not moved, 27 November 2023, from Twitter to X (app), see discussion.
Not moved, 10 December 2023, from Twitter to X (social network), see discussion.

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Section sizes

Section size for Twitter (74 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	18,910	18,910
History	31	63,979
2006–2007: Creation and initial reaction	10,085	10,085
2007–2010	11,642	11,642
2010–2014	10,843	10,843
2014–2020	6,274	6,274
2020–2021	12,032	12,032
Since 2022	1,827	13,072
Acquisition by Elon Musk	103	103
Post-acquisition	89	89
Rebrand to X	11,053	11,053
Appearance and features	167	64,424
Posts	22,138	22,138
Multimedia content	8,398	8,398
Curation	18	7,217
Trending topics	3,317	3,317
Lists	2,091	2,091
Moments	1,791	1,791
Algorithm	2,547	2,547
Mobile	1,650	1,650
Premium (formerly Twitter Blue)	3,016	14,039
Verification of paid accounts	11,023	11,023
User monetization	5,288	5,288
E-commerce	2,980	2,980
Usage	1,802	16,017
Demographics	7,069	7,069
Content	2,740	2,740
Levels of use	3,435	3,435
User engagement	971	971
Branding	7,237	7,237
Finances	14	10,758
Revenue sources	4,057	4,057
Advertising bans	3,528	3,528
Fines	3,159	3,159
Technology	15	31,065
Implementation	5,243	5,243
API and developer platform	5,955	5,955
Innovators patent agreement	550	550
Open source	3,664	3,664
Interface	5,827	5,827
Security	6,296	6,296
Outages	3,515	3,515
User accounts	18	41,090
Verified accounts	6,380	6,380
Privacy	10,969	10,969
Harassment	8,254	8,254
Suspect and contested accounts	7,986	7,986
Malicious and fake accounts	5,045	5,045
X bots	2,438	2,438
Society	12	52,921
Usage	800	16,061
Protesters	4,061	4,061
Governments	6,110	6,110
Pornography	1,601	1,601
Child sexual exploitation	3,489	3,489
Impact	50	19,506
On communication	3,266	3,266
Emergency use	2,389	2,389
Education	5,865	5,865
Public figures	4,199	4,199
World leaders	2,279	2,279
Religion	1,458	1,458
Censorship and moderation	6,225	12,483
Moderation of tweets	6,258	6,258
Community Notes	163	163
Court cases and lawsuits	4,696	4,696
Statistics	15	8,828
User accounts with large follower base	2,268	2,268
Record tweets	6,545	6,545
See also	126	126
Notes	31	31
References	352	352
Further reading	562	562
External links	1,412	1,412
Total	317,712	317,712

Predictions of the end of Twitter was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 24 July 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Twitter. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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This article has been viewed enough times in a single year to make it into the Top 50 Report annual list. This happened in 2009 and 2023.

This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report 3 times. The weeks in which this happened:

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Hu, Charlotte (23 November 2021). "Twitter's fledgling misinformation tool is adding aliases". Popular Science. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
Allen, Jennifer; Martel, Cameron; Rand, David G (29 April 2022). "Birds of a feather don’t fact-check each other: Partisanship and the evaluation of news in Twitter’s Birdwatch crowdsourced fact-checking program". CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '22. Association for Computing Machinery: 1–19. doi:10.1145/3491102.3502040. ISBN 978-1-4503-9157-3.
Gariffo, Michael (3 March 2022). "Twitter shares Birdwatch fact-checked notes with more US users". ZDNet. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
Hussain, Suhauna; Contreras, Brian (27 April 2022). "Twitter was at the forefront of content moderation. What comes next?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
Stokel-Walker, Chris (7 April 2022). "This Is How Twitter's Edit Button Can Actually Work". Wired UK. Retrieved 3 May 2022.

Just something I saw[edit]

I know that because of WP:COMMONAME, we currently can't change the title to X. One of the main arguments I've seen is that most reliable news outlets still use "formerly Twitter" in them. But I was scrolling through CNN today, and strangely enough, in some articles, they dropped the the use of Twitter, and now fully use X. Two examples:

[1] A public farewell to Navalny is expected at the end of this working week, spokesperson Kira Yarmish said in a post on social network X on Monday.
[2] “Today is a historic day,” Kristersson said on X shortly after the vote.

Just a thought, for now. The 🏎 Corvette 🏍 ZR1^{(The Garage)} 02:17, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know, but of course, CNN is not the only source we look at when determining the COMMONNAME. There are also other considerations like WP:NATURAL. InfiniteNexus (talk) 19:30, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If that were the case then the "Willis Tower" article would still be named as the Sears Tower. Absolutely nobody calls it that, same situation as what's going on with X, really. 2601:243:CE7F:B0A0:DDEC:5AEB:9270:27E4 (talk) 09:56, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't even think their rebrand to X is finished. Why, you may ask? I got an email from X/Twitter Support, but instead of X Support, it said Twitter Support, so beyond the domain name, they still have some work to do. Unknown0124 (talk) 15:17, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"RainbowTwtr" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

The redirect RainbowTwtr has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 19 § RainbowTwtr until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 12:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fidelity[edit]

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I suggest we internally link the word "Fidelity" in the lead to Fidelity Investments. --62.166.252.25 (talk) 07:34, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 07:36, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"X (far-right website)" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

The redirect X (far-right website) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 April 7 § X (far-right website) until a consensus is reached. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 22:32, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Twitter name[edit]

I read the FAQ. Looked at the RMs. Couple thoughts:

Most prior discussions have low attendance, less than a dozen editors. I don't see discussions of long length involving the wider community.
The argument of discoverability is the same argument that Twitter is/was the better brand name. Hardly anyone will disagree with that, forever. It was an epic brand rename failure. Thus, we on Wikipedia will always argue that Twitter is more "discoverable", because it's fundamentally true on and off Wikipedia. Nevertheless, maintaining Twitter forever, for discoverability reason, is POV, essentially concurring with - and consciously indicating - it was a brand rename failure.
X.com redirects to twitter.com .. this is an extremely strong case for keeping Twitter for now. If/when the company changes to X.com, the case for Twitter gets weaker.
Wikipedia can follow the lead of many other sources using "X (formerly Twitter)" etc.. as an intermediary step, a deprecation step. This is already done piecemeal throughout Wikipedia.

-- GreenC 14:53, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with concerns over small headcounts in the previous RMs. An RfC should probably be done in the future, with options like "X (social network)", "X (website)", "X (formerly Twitter)", and "Twitter" as titles. SWinxy (talk) 19:44, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]