History Today: How a side project in 2006 became Twitter and eventually X

On this day in 2006, Twitter was launched as a side project that allowed users to send short status updates to groups of friends by texting a single number. Over the next decade, it grew to over 300 million users. It eventually became one of the world’s leading social media platforms. Twitter’s journey took a new turn after Elon Musk bought the company in October 2022

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