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History of Twitter

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Mid-Day
Technology
By Nascimento Pinto
Published Jul 25, 2023

Origins

Twitter was started as a social networking website in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams and Biz Stone

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Name

The initial name of Twitter was twttr, an idea that Williams came up with and suggest to Noah Glass because the domain twitter.com was already in use

Popularity

Twitter became popular in 2007 at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference, where the tweets increased from 20,000 to 60,000 per day

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Elon Musk and X

Elon Musk acquired Twitter on October 27, 2022, for $44 billion; appointed Linda Yaccarino as the CEO on June 5 to succeed him; rebranded it on July 25 to `X`

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