How Cool Twitter Was Before Elon Ruined It
Scaling the “Fail Whale” Just to Fail Again
Believe it or not, X wasn’t always the social media “powerhouse” that it is today. Or used to be up until Elon Musk bought the thing.
The real Twitter, the good old one, started as a simple side project of a podcasting company called Odeo, back in 2006.
Co-founder Jack Dorsey had a vision for a platform that would allow people to share short messages, or “tweets,” with the world in real time.
History in the making.
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