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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted 'just setting up my twttr.' Twitter went public to all users that July. It was renamed X in 2023.

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Why this date?

  • Twitter was originally an SMS-style service — the 140-character limit came from cell phone text messages.
  • Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion.
  • It was rebranded to X in July 2023.
  • The first tweet ever was sold as an NFT for about $2.9 million in 2021.

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