It’s been 20 years since the first tweet

On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey I posted a simple message: “Just setting up my Twitter.”

This was, of course, the first post on the site still known as Twitter, even after being renamed X by its new owner Elon Musk (the deal is still in the works). They fought in court). Then it became X Part of Musk’s XAIany It itself became part of SpaceX.

Musk Significantly reduce the company’s workforce It sparked new controversies by integrating XAI’s chatbot Grok, which… He called himself “Mikahtler” It was used to Create deepfakes on a massive scaleincluding real women and children.

While X It maintains a strong hold over some user groupsIncluding large segments of the technology industry, it also faces competition from services like Bluesky and Meta’s Threads. One report suggests that Threads recently It outperformed X in daily mobile users. (All of these primarily text services are dwarfed by apps like Instagram and TikTok.)

As for Dorsey’s original tweet, he later co-founded Twitter Sell ​​it as an NFT For $2.9 million. But its value is said decreasedWith the buyer unable to resell it.