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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 of Block, Inc. (developer of the Square financial services platform).
The deal was closed on October 28, with Musk immediately becoming Twitter's new owner and CEO. Twitter was taken private and merged into a new parent company named X Corp. Musk promptly fired several top executives, including previous CEO Parag Agrawal. Musk has since proposed several reforms to Twitter and laid off half of the company's ...
In October 2017, Twitter announced the appointment of Agrawal as chief technology officer following the departure of Adam Messinger. [17] In December 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Agrawal would be in charge of Project Bluesky , an initiative to develop a decentralized social network protocol.
In a May 12 tweet, Twitter owner Elon Musk confirmed that he has appointed former NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino to be the new CEO of Twitter, effective in roughly six weeks. Earlier that...
If nothing else, $44 billion has bought Twitter power-user Elon Musk status as the No. 1 most-followed account on the social network. As of Thursday morning, Musk had 133.088 million users — up ...
X Logo used since 2023 [a] X homepage visited while logged out in December 2024 Formerly Twitter (2006–2023) Type of site Social networking service Available in Multilingual Founded March 21, 2006 ; 18 years ago (2006-03-21), in San Francisco, California, U.S. Headquarters Bastrop, Texas, United States Area served Worldwide, except blocking countries Owner Odeo (March–October 2006) Obvious ...
Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter for $43 billion just days after news broke that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO would not join the social media giant’s board of directors. Musk, in a letter to ...
Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter in October 2022; Musk acted as CEO of Twitter until June 2023 when he was succeeded by Linda Yaccarino.In a move that, despite Yaccarino's accession, was widely attributed to Musk, [1] [2] Twitter was rebranded to X on July 23, 2023, [3] and its domain name changed from twitter.com to x.com on May 17, 2024.