It’s Been 20 Years Since The First Tweet

In Brief

On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a elemental message: “just mounting up my twittr”.

That was, of course, nan very first station connected nan tract that is still champion known arsenic Twitter, moreover aft being renamed X by its caller proprietor Elon Musk (the woody is still being fought complete successful court). X past became part of Musk’s xAI, which itself has go portion of SpaceX.

Musk cut nan company’s workforce dramatically and spurred caller controversies by incorporating xAI’s chatbot Grok, which dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and was utilized to create wide intersexual deepfakes, including of existent women and children.

While X retains a beardown clasp connected immoderate personification groups, including swaths of nan tech industry, it besides faces title from services for illustration Bluesky and Meta’s Threads. One study suggests that Threads precocious overtook X successful regular mobile users. (All of these chiefly text-based services are dwarfed by apps for illustration Instagram and TikTok.)

As for Dorsey’s original tweet, nan Twitter co-founder later sold it arsenic an NFT for $2.9 million. But its worth has reportedly plummeted, pinch nan purchaser incapable to resell it.

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