On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “simply organising my twittr”.
That was, in fact, the very first submit on the positioning that’s nonetheless finest often known as Twitter, even after being renamed X by its new proprietor Elon Musk (the deal continues to be being fought over in court docket). X then turned a part of Musk’s xAI, which itself has develop into a part of SpaceX.
Musk lower the corporate’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 ladies and youngsters.
Whereas X retains a powerful maintain on some consumer teams, together with swaths of the tech business, it additionally faces competitors from providers like Bluesky and Meta’s Threads. One report means that Threads not too long ago overtook X in every day cell customers. (All of those primarily text-based providers are dwarfed by apps like Instagram and TikTok.)
As for Dorsey’s unique tweet, the Twitter co-founder later offered it as an NFT for $2.9 million. However its worth has reportedly plummeted, with the client unable to resell it.
