On this day in 2006, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams they created it Твитер, one of the largest social networks in the world, which 17 years after its launch counts about 450 million monthly active users.

Twitter was founded on March 21, 2006, and the first full version of Twitter was publicly unveiled on July 15, 2006. The very next year, interest in the new platform grew sharply after it was presented at the South by Southwest conference in March.

On the same day, March 21, 2006, the first tweet was published on that social network, and it was published by Jack Dorsey.

"Just setting up my twttr", read the first post on that social network.

just setting up my twttr

—jack (@jack) March 21, 2006

Dorsey offered the first Twitter message for sale through the website Weilless.

The post was sold as an NFT in 2021 for $2,1 million, and was purchased by crypto-entrepreneur Sina Estavi. When the cryptocurrency and NFT market crashed last year, its value dropped to just $6.800.

 

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The social network Twitter took over in October last year Ilon Mask, who paid for it $ 44 billion.

The founder's first tweet sold for $ 2,9 million