GRAMMAR
Complete the text with the present simple passive form of the verbs in brackets.
Like Facebook, Twitter is an online social network. On Facebook, your posts (1)
__________________________ (read) by your friends but on Twitter, short messages or
‘Tweets’ (2) __________________________ (write) for your friends to read. More than
347,000 Tweets (3) __________________________ (send) every minute. Twitter (4)
__________________________ (not own) by a big company like Microsoft or Google.
Twitter (5) __________________________ (use) by millions to follow news, events or even
famous people. For example, Katie Perry (6) __________________________ (follow) by
more than 85 million people. However, ‘Tweets’ (7) __________________________ (not
delete) from the system. American Tweets (8) __________________________ (save) by the
Library of Congress in Washington DC.