On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a straightforward message: “just organising my twittr”.
That was, after all, the very first post on the positioning that remains to be best often called Twitter, even after being renamed X by its recent owner Elon Musk (the deal remains to be being fought over in court). X then became a part of Musk’s xAI, which itself has turn into a part of SpaceX.
Musk cut the corporate’s workforce dramatically and spurred recent 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 powerful hold on some user groups, including swaths of the tech industry, it also faces competition from services like Bluesky and Meta’s Threads. One report suggests that Threads recently overtook X in day by day mobile users. (All of those 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 an NFT for $2.9 million. But its value has reportedly plummeted, with the customer unable to resell it.