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[[File: | {{move|X (social network)|Currently undergoing a rebrand; at the time of writing it may be hasty, but as things progress this should stay open.}} | ||
'''Twitter''' is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". | [[File:X 2023.svg|200px|thumb|X's logo after its rebrand in July 2023.]] | ||
'''X''', formerly known as '''Twitter''', is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". | |||
On July 23rd, 2023, {{iw|wikipedia|Elon Musk}}, a business magnate who bought the platform in October 2022, began the process of rebranding Twitter to X. | |||
==Relevance to the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series== | ==Relevance to the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series== | ||
[[Nintendo]] | [[Nintendo]] owns and operates a host of X accounts to promote games and products, as well as provide general corporate updates and announcements. More specifically, Nintendo operates an account called '''Nintendo Versus''', which focuses on competitive games, including the ''Super Smash Bros.'' games, while in Japan, Nintendo runs the account '''@SmashBrosJP''' that solely shares news and other content related to ''Smash''. | ||
Many popular Smashers own | Many popular Smashers own X accounts and often post various things about ''Super Smash Bros.'' on their accounts, including promotions for their ''Super Smash Bros.'' related YouTube videos, as well as comments about tournaments or even asking their followers questions or making a poll about the games. | ||
Tournament directors also use | Tournament directors also use X to promote their event, tweeting out when and on what stream a tournament is starting, what bracket is being streamed, and sometimes results of a recent match, or the whole tournament. | ||
Groups that manage [[power rankings]] such as [[Panda Global|PG Stats]] use | Groups that manage [[power rankings]] such as [[Panda Global|PG Stats]] use X to post updates on the power ranking, as well as the rankings themselves when the season is over. | ||
Starting around the launch of ''Ultimate'', high level players began to notice the prevalence of misleading clips of combos performed by various fighters, which gave the impression that the fighters in question had a significantly stronger combo game that what could practically be achieved in competitive play. They were usually performed against low level CPUs in Training mode, but were sometimes taken from online play as well, and a new wave of them would often be posted every time a new fighter was released. These were given the sarcastic name of "Twitter combos", and are often regarded as dubious by high level players. | Starting around the launch of ''Ultimate'', high level players began to notice the prevalence of misleading clips of combos performed by various fighters, which gave the impression that the fighters in question had a significantly stronger combo game that what could practically be achieved in competitive play. They were usually performed against low level CPUs in Training mode, but were sometimes taken from online play as well, and a new wave of them would often be posted every time a new fighter was released. These were given the sarcastic name of "Twitter combos", and are often regarded as dubious by high level players. | ||
Starting on December 27th, 2019, [[Masahiro Sakurai]] started using his [https://twitter.com/Sora_Sakurai | Starting on December 27th, 2019, [[Masahiro Sakurai]] started using his [https://twitter.com/Sora_Sakurai X page] to post daily images of ''Ultimate'' at 11 PM EST (3 AM {{s|wikipedia|UTC}}), similar to his "[[Pic of the Day]]" series on {{b|Miiverse|social network}}. He retired from uploading these pictures of the day on August 23rd, 2022 due to running out of pictures to upload. | ||
==Gallery== | |||
<gallery> | |||
TwitterLogo.svg|Twitter's logo used from 2012 to 2023. | |||
X thin logo.svg|A thinner variant of X’s logo. | |||
</gallery> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[SmashWiki:Twitter|The SmashWiki | *[[SmashWiki:Twitter|The SmashWiki X account]] | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[https://twitter.com/ | *[https://twitter.com/ X's home page] | ||
*[https://twitter.com/Nintendo Nintendo official account] <small>(Japanese)</small> | *[https://twitter.com/Nintendo Nintendo official account] <small>(Japanese)</small> | ||
*[https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica Nintendo of America official account] <small>(English)</small> | *[https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica Nintendo of America official account] <small>(English)</small> | ||