It’s been 20 years since the first tweet


On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “simply organising my twittr”.

That was, in fact, the very first put up on the web site that is nonetheless greatest often known as Twitter, even after being renamed X by its new proprietor Elon Musk (the deal is nonetheless being fought over in court). X then turned part of Musk’s xAI, which itself has become part of SpaceX.

Musk cut the company’s workforce dramatically and spurred new controversies by incorporating xAI’s chatbot Grok, which dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and was used to create widespread sexual deepfakes, together with of actual girls and youngsters.

Whereas X retains a strong hold on some user groups, together with swaths of the tech business, it additionally faces competitors from providers like Bluesky and Meta’s Threads. One report means that Threads just lately overtook X in daily mobile users. (All of those primarily text-based providers are dwarfed by apps like Instagram and TikTok.)

As for Dorsey’s authentic tweet, the Twitter co-founder later sold it as an NFT for $2.9 million. However its worth has reportedly plummeted, with the purchaser unable to resell it.




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