On the Record · Twitter
Twitter competitors, on the record
The companies Twitter names as competitors in its annual reports, 2019 to 2021, and the companies that name Twitter, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Twitter names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Alphabet | 2021 |
| Kakao | 2021 |
| Line | 2021 |
| Meta | 2021 |
| Microsoft | 2021 |
| 2021 | |
| Snapchat | 2021 |
| TikTok | 2021 |
| 2021 | |
| Yahoo | 2021 |
In its own words
Alphabet, Kakao, Line, Meta, Microsoft, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, WeChat, Yahoo
Word for word“We compete for our audience against a variety of social networking platforms, messaging companies and media companies, some of which have greater financial resources, larger audiences or more established relationships with advertisers, such as Meta (including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), Alphabet (including Google and YouTube), Microsoft (including LinkedIn), Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest and Yahoo, or in certain regions WeChat, Kakao and Line.” 10-K for 2021
Who names Twitter
Companies whose own annual reports name Twitter as a competitor.
Word for word“• Companies such as Facebook and Twitter that provide mail, photo sharing, blogging, microblogging, and other social or communication services.” 10-K for 2016
Word for word“We also face significant competition in almost every aspect of our business, including from companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo Japan.” 20-F for 2019
Word for word“These competitors include YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Twitch.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“In addition, we may also face increasing competition from global social media and social networking services, such as Twitter and Facebook.” 20-F for 2019
Read from Twitter’s annual reports (10-K for 2021, 10-K for 2020, 10-K for 2019) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2022-02-16. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.