On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “simply organising my twittr”.
That was, after all, the very first submit on the location that’s nonetheless finest often called Twitter, even after being renamed X by its new proprietor Elon Musk (the deal remains to be being fought over in court docket). X then grew to become a part of Musk’s xAI, which itself has change into a part of SpaceX.
Musk reduce 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 girls and kids.
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 lately overtook X in each day cellular 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 customer unable to resell it.
