Twitter was founded on this day in 2006, here’s all you need to know

Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone created the online microblogging service Twitter in March 2006, publicly launching it on July 15, 2006. The founders announced the short messaging service (SMS) for groups to the public with the name Twttr, which was later changed to Twitter.

This SMS service provider emerged as the social media platform and was later renamed ‘X’ by the new owner Elon Musk who purchased it for a whopping $44 billion in October 2022.