Posts from The Twitter Blog: holiday

#Eid al-Fitr Celebration on Twitter

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Using Twitter to mark your observance of Eid al-Fitr.Read more…

Celebrate the month of fasting with #Ramadan and #Eid

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Using Twitter to mark your observance of Ramadan and Eid.Read more…

Celebrating dads in 140 characters

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Tweet Dad a little Father’s Day love this Sunday.Read more…

Celebrating moms in 140 characters

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People around the world use Twitter to celebrate their mothers, and moms love Twitter too.Read more…

Sports + New Year’s Day a perfect combo

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Happy new year! While millions of people across the globe celebrated New Year’s Eve on the town, January 1 presented the perfect opportunity to sit on the couch, watch a variety of sporting events and discuss them on Twitter.

For all of the action, Twitter brought you into the locker room, onto the field and ice, amplified thrilling overtime action, and opened the doors of the broadcast booth.Read more…

Give #Thanks

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Each year at this time, as Twitter timelines fill up with recipes, photos of groaning tables and reports of travel slowdowns, people also tend to express gratitude. And it turns out this doesn’t only happen in November: this year to date, the word “thankful” has appeared in Tweets more than 21 million times. The top three items garnering thanks in Tweets? Perhaps unsurprisingly, they are elemental:

1. friends2. life3. familyRead more…