Twitter’s stock ticker symbol before the company was taken private was TWTR.
Twitter began trading under the symbol TWTR when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2013. A ticker symbol is the short identifier used by an exchange, financial databases, and investors to locate a company’s shares. In Twitter’s case, the four-letter symbol closely echoed the company’s name and its early “twttr” branding.
The stock remained publicly traded for nearly nine years. Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022, in a transaction valued at about US$44 billion. The deal converted Twitter into a private company, and its shares were subsequently delisted from the NYSE. That ended the public trading life of TWTR.
The symbol is easy to confuse with later branding. “X” became the platform’s new name in 2023, but it was not the ticker symbol used during Twitter’s public-company era. Likewise, BIRD is associated with another public technology company, while TWT and XCOM were not Twitter’s NYSE ticker. The question refers specifically to the period before Musk’s acquisition and the company’s removal from the public market.