I saw a news report saying that Twitter’s first-ever tweet has reached its 20th anniversary. Since Jack Dorsey posted “just setting up my twttr” on March 21, 2006, it has already been 20 years.

The historical value of this first-ever tweet is considerable—it’s permanently preserved at the Computer History Museum and has also been independently recognized in the Guinness World Records. And here’s the interesting part: an NFT version of this tweet was auctioned off for about $2.9 million in 2021. I think this is truly a symbolic event of the digital age, where the legacy of the early days of the internet is being commercialized in the form of NFTs.

That said, Twitter itself has gone through quite a lot of change since then. Following Elon Musk’s acquisition, it was renamed X, later integrated into xAI, and then became part of SpaceX’s portfolio. It’s been quite a dramatic sequence of events.

Today, X (formerly Twitter) still carries influence among the tech industry and core users, but it’s also true that competition is intensifying from Bluesky and Meta’s Threads. It’s a story that really makes you feel how the social media market keeps changing with the times.