Jack Dorsey’s experiment, Elon Musk’s empire: 20 years of twttr, now X, and how it changed the world
From an SMS-inspired platform to the world’s real-time information infrastructure, Twitter – now X – evolved from a microblogging experiment into a digital town square over two decades.
A star is born
Twitter, originally called twttr, launched on July 15, 2006. Months earlier, co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.” It took off at the 2007 SXSW conference, when real-time updates made it an instant hit.
