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Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and was launched that July. By 2012 [update], more than 100 million users tweeted 340 million tweets a day. [ 8 ][ 9 ] The company went public in November 2013.
Following months of endless twists and turns, the $44 billion Twitter saga has finally come to an end and the "bird is freed," as Elon Musk tweeted on Oct. 27. The New York Stock Exchange has...
The business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 27, 2022. Musk had begun buying shares of the company in January 2022, becoming its largest shareholder by April with a 9.1 percent ownership stake.
Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Evan Williams ...
Shares of Twitter were down 5.3% in pre-market trading on July 11, following Elon Musk's termination of the $44 billion deal late Friday, July 8. See: Twitter Shares Tumble as Their 'Fire Hose ...
Elon Musk. Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ ˈiːlɒn /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the ...
The investigation, which escalates a long-running feud between the SEC and Musk, concerns whether Musk broke federal securities laws in 2022 when he bought stock in Twitter, which Musk renamed X ...
Jack Dorsey. Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) [3] is an American Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and programmer, who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc. from 2015 until 2021, as well as co-founder, principal executive officer and chairman [4] of Block, Inc., which is the developer of the Square financial services ...