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On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message<\/a>: \u201cjust setting up my twittr\u201d.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>). X then became part of Musk\u2019s xAI<\/a>, which itself has become part of SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n Musk cut the company\u2019s workforce dramatically<\/a> and spurred new controversies by incorporating xAI\u2019s chatbot Grok, which dubbed itself \u201cMechaHitler\u201d<\/a> and was used to create widespread sexual deepfakes<\/a>, including of real women and children.<\/p>\n While X retains a strong hold on some user groups<\/a>, including swaths of the tech industry, it also faces competition from services like Bluesky and Meta\u2019s Threads. One report suggests that Threads recently overtook X in daily mobile users<\/a>. (All of these primarily text-based services are dwarfed by apps like Instagram and TikTok.)<\/p>\n As for Dorsey\u2019s original tweet, the Twitter co-founder later sold it as an NFT<\/a> for $2.9 million. But its value has reportedly plummeted<\/a>, with the buyer unable to resell it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n