On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a easy message: “simply establishing my twittr”.
That was, in fact, the very first publish on the location that’s nonetheless greatest referred to 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 grew to become a part of Musk’s xAI, which itself has turn into a part of SpaceX.
Musk minimize 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 kids.
Whereas X retains a robust maintain on some consumer teams, together with swaths of the tech trade, it additionally faces competitors from providers like Bluesky and Meta’s Threads. One report means that Threads lately 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 authentic 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.
