{"id":17681,"date":"2026-03-22T00:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/its-been-20-years-since-the-first-tweet\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:06:50","slug":"its-been-20-years-since-the-first-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/its-been-20-years-since-the-first-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been 20 years since the first tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: &ldquo;just setting up my twittr&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was, of course, the very first post on the site that is still best known as Twitter, even after being renamed X by its new owner Elon Musk (the deal is still being fought over in court). X then became part of Musk&rsquo;s xAI, which itself has become part of SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk cut the company&rsquo;s workforce dramatically and spurred new controversies by incorporating xAI&rsquo;s chatbot Grok, which dubbed itself &ldquo;MechaHitler&rdquo; and was used to create widespread sexual deepfakes, including of real women and children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While X retains a strong hold on some user groups, including swaths of the tech industry, it also faces competition from services like Bluesky and Meta&rsquo;s Threads. One report suggests that Threads recently overtook X in daily mobile users. (All of these primarily text-based services are dwarfed by apps like Instagram and TikTok.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for Dorsey&rsquo;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 buyer unable to resell it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>It&rsquo;s been 20 years since the first tweet<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: &ldquo;just setting up my twittr&rdquo;. That was, of course, the very first post on the site that is still best known as Twitter, even after being renamed X by its new owner Elon Musk (the deal is still being fought over in court). X then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/its-been-20-years-since-the-first-tweet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;It\u2019s been 20 years since the first tweet&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}