Twitter #Thatsafrican and #thingsdarkiessay hashtags after users complained that they found the hashtags offensive. There are allegations that Twitter removed #NaMOinHyd from the trending list and added an Indian National Congress-sponsored hashtag. There are numerous tools for adding content, monitoring content and conversations including Twitter's own TweetDeck, Salesforce.com, HootSuite, and Twitterfeed.com. , fewer than half of tweets posted were posted using the web user interface with most users using third-party applications (based on an analysis of 500 million tweets by Sysomos). In June 2009, after being criticized by Kanye West and sued by Tony La Russa over unauthorized accounts run by
Use of Twitter by public figures December 12, 2012 history was made when Pope Francis sent his first tweet which was re-tweeted by thousands of users almost immediately. Since this time Pope Francis has amassed over 7.56 million followers on his account @Pontifex (as of October 2015) and regularly engages with users via the hashtag #AskPontifex addressing religious matters and responding to questions. Several satellite accounts are used to transmit and translate the Pope's tweets into different languages. Use of Twitter by public figures The use of Twitter by celebrities and politicians has become an important factor both for Twitter itself and for the celebrity users.