It’s been 20 years since the first tweet

It’s been 20 years since the first tweet

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

That was, in fact, the very first publish on the website that is still best often known as Twitter, even after being renamed X by its new proprietor Elon Musk (the deal is still being fought over in courtroom). X then turned a part of Musk’s xAI, which itself has develop into a part of SpaceX.

Musk (*20*)minimize 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, including of real women and kids.

While X retains a strong maintain on some person teams, including swaths of the tech business, it also faces competitors from companies like Bluesky and Meta’s Threads. One report suggests that Threads lately overtook X in daily cellular customers. (All of these primarily text-based companies are dwarfed by apps like Instagram and TikTok.)

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

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