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How Twitter trended on Hacker News

Twitter was mentioned 393,521 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2022 with 16,387 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Twitter appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about Twitter

1. 1.Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever 2,953 points · 1,339 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private 2,747 points · 3,078 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack 2,595 points · 1,349 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources 2,498 points · 3,678 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Twitter to ban political advertising 2,447 points · 1,004 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News 1,831 points · 390 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
7. 7.I resigned from Twitter 1,692 points · 1,061 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business 1,624 points · 679 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Twitter ‘smytes’ customers 1,422 points · 551 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? 1,374 points · 1,145 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
11. 11.FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting 1,362 points · 325 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? 1,338 points · 731 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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