It’s been 20 years since the first tweet

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

That was, of course, the first post on the site that’s still best known as Twitter, even after its new owner, Elon Musk, rebranded it as X (the deal is still in the works). fought in court). X then became part of Musk’s xAIwhich has become part of SpaceX.

Musk drastically reduce the company’s workforce and generated new controversies by incorporating xAI’s Grok chatbot, which He called himself “MechaHitler” and was used to create widespread sexual deepfakeseven from real women and children.

while X maintains strong control over some user groupswhich includes sectors of the technology industry, also faces competition from services such as Bluesky and Meta’s Threads. A report suggests that Threads recently surpassed X in daily mobile users. (All of these primarily text-based services are dwarfed by apps like Instagram and TikTok.)

As for Dorsey’s original tweet, the Twitter co-founder later sold it as NFT for 2.9 million dollars. But its value has reportedly plummetedwithout the buyer being able to resell it.