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microblogging service
Category:
History & Society
- Formerly (2006–2023):
- Date:
- March 2007 - present
- Areas Of Involvement:
- blog
- social network
- Related People:
- Elon Musk
- Biz Stone
- Evan Williams
- Jack Dorsey
Recent News
Jan. 26, 2024, 7:56 PM ET (AP)
Deepfake explicit images of Taylor Swift spread on social media. Her fans are fighting back
Jan. 25, 2024, 12:09 PM ET (AP)
Court takes new look at whether Musk post illegally threatened workers with loss of stock options
Jan. 22, 2024, 8:25 PM ET (AP)
Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after uproar over antisemitic messages on X
Jan. 5, 2024, 6:29 PM ET (AP)
A group representing TikTok, Meta and X sues Ohio over new law limiting kids' use of social media
X, formerly Twitter (2006–2023), is an online social media platform and microblogging service that distributes short messages of no more than 280 characters. The service was influential in shaping politics and culture in the early 21st century. The successor to Twitter, X Corp., is a wholly owned subsidiary of X Holdings Corp., which is owned by South African–born American entrepreneur Elon Musk. In April 2022, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission expressed the intent for Twitter to merge with one of Musk’s corporate entities, X Holdings. After Musk completed the deal to acquire Twitter in October 2022, he ...(100 of 1340 words)