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2025 |
Twitter
The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon, Ralph Lauren Corporation, and at least four other companies were coerced into signing advertising contracts with X (formerly Twitter) through legal threats from Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino.
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May 14 2025 |
Twitter
X's integrated AI chatbot Grok began randomly responding to queries with misleading claims about white genocide in South Africa.
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2025 |
Twitter
India ordered X (Twitter) to block 8,000 accounts to users within India, under threat of fines. X criticized the government's orders and encouraged affected users to seek legal recourse.
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March 2025 |
Twitter
X was acquired by xAI, Musk's artificial intelligence company, in a deal valued at $33 billion.
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2025 |
Twitter
Twitter sued the Indian government for using the IT Act to block tweets and other content on its platform.
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February 2025 |
Twitter
Twitter settled a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump in response to his account suspension, paying Trump approximately $10 million.
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January 2025 |
Twitter
X (formerly Twitter) announced plans to introduce an 'X Money Account' digital wallet feature, partnering with Visa to enable peer-to-peer payments and fund transfers between traditional bank accounts
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2024 |
SMS language
A research study revealed that using text message abbreviations can make the sender appear less sincere and potentially reduce the likelihood of receiving responses.
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2024 |
SMS
Apple supports RCS 'Universal Profile' initiative with iOS 18, enabling RCS texting capabilities on virtually all new mobile phones.
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October 2024 |
Twitter
Platform estimated to have lost about 72 percent of its value since Musk's acquisition.
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September 2024 |
Twitter
The FTC released a report summarizing company responses about user and non-user data collection practices, highlighting potential risks of data collection and use.
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August 13 2024 |
Twitter
The Workplace Relations Commission ordered Twitter to pay €550,000 to former senior staffer Gary Rooney in an unfair dismissal case.
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August 6 2024 |
Twitter
X filed an antitrust lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas against the World Federation of Advertisers, Unilever, Mars, CVS, and Ørsted, claiming conspiracy to withhold advertising revenue.
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July 3 2024 |
Koo
Founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka announced their decision to shut down the Koo platform.
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May 2024 |
Twitter
Twitter reached 600 million monthly active users, according to Elon Musk.
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May 2024 |
Twitter
Rebranding from Twitter to X was completed.
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April 2024 |
Koo
Koo experienced financial difficulties, struggling to pay employee salaries for April and indicating that future salaries were contingent on a potential sale of the company.
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March 2024 |
Twitter
Twitter's monthly active users increased to 550 million, as reported by Elon Musk.
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2023 |
Twitter
Tweet character limit was completely removed for subscribed accounts.
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2023 |
Twitter
Twitter Blue users gained the ability to create posts up to 4,000 characters in length.
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2023 |
Twitter
A study was conducted analyzing user engagement patterns on Twitter, revealing insights into content positivity, audience addressing, and communication strategies across different user follower levels.
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2023 |
Twitter
Super Follows was rebranded to 'subscriptions', allowing users to publish exclusive long-form posts and videos for subscribers, reportedly to compete with Substack.
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November 2023 |
Twitter
A 'Premium+' subscription was launched with a higher monthly fee, offering benefits such as ad-free 'For You' and 'Following' feeds.
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November 20 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter filed a lawsuit against Media Matters, alleging defamation following a report about brand advertisements appearing alongside Nazi-related content.
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August 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter reversed its political advertising ban, establishing new criteria that prohibit promoting false or misleading content and require advertisers to comply with laws, with compliance being the sole responsibility of the advertiser.
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August 5 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter Blue was rebranded as X Premium following the platform's rebranding to 'X'.
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July 22 2023 |
Twitter
Elon Musk announced the rebranding of Twitter to 'X', replacing the iconic bird logo with a Unicode mathematical alphanumeric symbol for the letter 'X'.
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June 5 2023 |
Twitter
Linda Yaccarino succeeded Elon Musk as CEO, with Musk remaining as chairman and chief technology officer.
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May 2023 |
Twitter
Elon Musk pulled Twitter out of the European Union's disinformation fighting program.
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April 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter discontinued SMS communication feature in most countries due to security vulnerabilities exposed by hackers.
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April 25 2023 |
Twitter
Verified users were given priority in replies to tweets.
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April 21 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter began requiring companies to participate in the verified organizations program to purchase advertising, with companies spending at least $1,000 per month automatically receiving membership.
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April 20 2023 |
Twitter
The removal of legacy verification status was delayed from the original April 1 date to April 20 following criticism.
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March 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter made the gold check mark available for organizations to purchase through the Verified Organizations program (formerly Twitter Blue for Business).
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March 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter experienced a security attack that resulted in the unauthorized release of proprietary code, which was subsequently removed.
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March 2023 |
Twitter
According to Elon Musk, Twitter had 500 million monthly active users.
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March 2023 |
Twitter
X Corp. was established to succeed Twitter, Inc. after Musk's acquisition.
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March 31 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter released the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub, marking a commitment to platform transparency as described by the company.
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March 25 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter announced the removal of 'legacy' verification status, requiring a subscription to retain verified status.
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March 24 2023 |
Twitter
Elon Musk conducted a public poll asking followers if Twitter's algorithm should be open sourced, with approximately 83% responding 'yes'.
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March 14 2023 |
Koo
Koo integrated ChatGPT into its platform, allowing users to generate content and posts using artificial intelligence technology.
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February 2023 |
Twitter
Turkey blocked Twitter access for 12 hours following the earthquake, with Erdoğan accusing people of spreading disinformation about the government's response.
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February 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter announced the end of free API access and began offering paid tier plans with more limited access.
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January 2023 |
Twitter
Twitter ended third-party access to its APIs, forcing all third-party Twitter clients to shut down, including the 16-year-old Twitterrific app.
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2022 |
Twitter
Twitter announced testing the ability to edit tweets, initially for Twitter Blue subscribers.
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2022 |
Koo
Aprameya Radhakrishnan, CEO of Koo, was recognized as one of the Top 100 global tech changemakers, underscoring the company's leadership and innovative approach in the tech industry.
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2022 |
Koo
Nigerian government officials stopped using Koo after the Twitter ban was lifted.
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2022 | CTIA reported 2 trillion SMS and MMS messages were sent in the United States in 2021. |
December 2022 |
Twitter
Twitter replaced the 'Official' text with a gold checkmark for organizations and a grey checkmark for government and multilateral accounts.
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December 12 2022 |
Twitter
Twitter Blue was relaunched, with iOS app store subscribers paying $10.99 per month to offset Apple's 30% revenue split.
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