On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a easy message: “simply establishing my twittr”.
That was, in fact, the very first put up on the location that’s nonetheless finest 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 turned a part of Musk’s xAI, which itself has change 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 kids.
Whereas X retains a powerful maintain on some consumer teams, together with swaths of the tech business, it additionally faces competitors from companies 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 companies 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 customer unable to resell it.