{"id":1021872,"date":"2026-07-17T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021872"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:24:34","slug":"jack-dorseys-experiment-elon-musks-empire-20-years-of-twttr-now-x-and-how-it-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/jack-dorseys-experiment-elon-musks-empire-20-years-of-twttr-now-x-and-how-it-changed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dorsey&#8217;s experiment, Elon Musk&#8217;s empire: 20 years of twttr, now X, and how it changed the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an SMS-inspired platform to the world&#8217;s real-time information infrastructure, Twitter \u2013 now X \u2013 evolved from a microblogging experiment into a digital town square over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>A star is born<br \/>\nTwitter, originally called twttr, launched on July 15, 2006. Months earlier, co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet: \u201cjust setting up my twttr.\u201d It took off at the 2007 SXSW conference, when real-time updates made it an instant hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an SMS-inspired platform to the world&#8217;s real-time information infrastructure, Twitter \u2013 now X \u2013 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: \u201cjust setting up my twttr.\u201d It took off at the 2007 SXSW conference, when real-time updates made it an instant hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021873,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021872\/revisions\/1021873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}