Twitter is a microblogging and social networking
service on which users post and interact with
messages known as "tweets", owned by American
company Twitter, Inc. Registered users can post, like,
and retweet tweets, however, unregistered users have
the ability to only read tweets that are publicly
available. Users interact with Twitter through browser
or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via
its APIs. Prior to April 2020, services were accessible
via SMS. Tweets were originally restricted to 140
characters, but the limit was doubled to 280 for nonCJK languages in November 2017. Audio and
video tweets remain limited to 140 seconds for most
accounts.
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz
Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and
launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in
San Francisco, California and has more than 25
offices around the world. By 2012, more than 100
million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and
the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search
queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the
ten most-visited websites and has been described as
"the SMS of the Internet". By the start of 2019,
Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active
users. In practice, the vast majority of tweets are
written by a minority of users. On April 25, 2022, the Twitter board of directors
agreed to a $44 billion buyout by Elon Musk, the
CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, potentially making it one
of the biggest deals to turn a company private. Musk said on July 8, 2022, that he was terminating
the deal, claiming that the social media company had
failed to provide information about fake accounts on
the platform. Twitter board chair Bret Taylor
subsequently pledged to pursue legal action against
Musk, launching a lawsuit against him in the
Chancery Court of Delaware on July 12.
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/ EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a
business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief
Engineer at SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and Product Architect
of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of
Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of around
US$221.4 billion as of July 2022, Musk is the wealthiest person
in the world according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
and Forbes' real-time billionaires list. Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where he grew up. He
briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to
Canada at age 17, acquiring citizenship through his Canadian-born
mother. Two years later, he matriculated at Queen's University and
transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received
bachelor's degrees in Economics and Physics. He moved to
California in 1995 to attend Stanford University but decided
instead to pursue a business career, co-founding the web software
company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. The startup was acquired
by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. The same year, Musk cofounded online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in
2000 to form PayPal. The company was bought by eBay in 2002,
for $1.5 billion.
In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and
space transport services company, of which he serves as CEO and
Chief Engineer. In 2004, he was an early investor in electric
vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.). He
became its chairman and product architect, eventually assuming
the position of CEO in 2008. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity,
a solar energy company that was later acquired by Tesla and
became Tesla Energy. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a
nonprofit research company promoting friendly artificial
intelligence (AI). In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a
neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer
interfaces, and founded The Boring Company, a tunnel
construction company. He agreed to purchase the major American
social networking service Twitter in 2022, for $44 billion, but later
claimed he was terminating the deal; he is currently involved in a
legal battle with Twitter which intends to complete the transaction.
Musk has proposed the Hyperloop, a high-speed vactrain
transportation system, and is the president of the Musk Foundation,
an organization which donates to scientific research and education.
Musk has been criticized for making unscientific and controversial
statements, such as spreading misinformation about the COVID-19
pandemic. In 2018, he was sued by the US Securities and
Co-founder of
Neuralink, OpenAI,
and Zip2
President of Musk
Foundation
Spouse(s) Justine Wilson
(m. 2000; div. 2008)
Talulah Riley
(m. 2010; div. 2012)
(m. 2013; div. 2016)
Partner(s) Grimes (2018–
2022) Children Parents Errol Musk (father)
Maye Musk (mother)
Relatives Tosca Musk (sister)
Kimbal Musk (brother)
Lyndon Rive (cousin)
Family Musk family
Awards List of honors and
awards
Signature
Exchange Commission (SEC) for falsely tweeting that he had
secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla; he settled with the
SEC but did not admit guilt, and he temporarily stepped down
from his Tesla chairmanship. In 2019, he won a defamation case
brought against him by a British caver who had advised in the
Tham Luang cave re
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