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, the precise archetypal station connected the tract that is inactive champion known arsenic Twitter, adjacent aft being renamed X by its caller proprietor Elon Musk (the woody is inactive being fought implicit successful court). X past became part of Musk’s xAI, which itself has go portion of SpaceX.

Musk cut the 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 idiosyncratic groups, including swaths of the tech industry, it besides faces contention from services similar 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 similar Instagram and TikTok.)

As for Dorsey’s archetypal tweet, the Twitter co-founder aboriginal sold it arsenic an NFT for $2.9 million. But its worth has reportedly plummeted, with the purchaser incapable to resell it.

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