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This list contains the top 50 accounts with the most followers on the social media platform X, formerly and commonly known as Twitter.Notable figures such as Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Narendra Modi, are at the top of the list, each with over 100 million followers.
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is a social networking service.It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. [4] [5] Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" (officially "posts") and like other users' content. [6]
In April 2023, Twitter merged with X Holdings [6] and ceased to be an independent company, becoming a part of X Corp. [7] Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and was launched that July. By 2012, more than 100 million users tweeted 340 million tweets a day.
The swarms of bots plaguing X might seem as bad as ever. Measuring user engagement in seconds may make it tougher for bots to game the platform, but it won't bring real users back.
(Reuters) -Elon Musk said on Friday monthly users of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reached a "new high" and shared a graph that showed the latest count as over 540 million.
As of Wednesday, there were over 20.7 million users and counting on the platform, according to a tracker touted by Bluesky employees (bcounter.nat.vg), equating to about 8 user signups per second.
The name "X" dates back to X.com, an online bank co-founded by Musk in 1999. In March 2000, X.com merged with competitor Confinity to create PayPal. [13] Musk considered forming a holding company named "X" for Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX in August 2012. [14] In July 2017, Musk reacquired the domain X.com, for an undisclosed amount, from PayPal. [15]
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