Twitter / X
More info
- Creator
- Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Noah Glass
- Released
- Owner
- X Corp (Elon Musk)
- Type
- Microblog
- Website
- x.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Microblog started in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Noah Glass — originally 140 characters SMS-inspired, lifted to 280 (2017), now unlimited for "Premium".
Defined hashtags, retweets, "trending topics" and "Twitter brain". Bought by Elon Musk in October 2022 for USD 44 billion; mass layoffs, rebrand to "X" in July 2023, blue check became purchasable, content moderation recalibrated.
User outflow to Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads since the Musk era. Historic stack: Ruby on Rails → JVM (Scala) "Finagle". Tweets sit in Manhattan (Twitter's own distributed KV store).