Social media platform founded as Twitter in 2006, acquired by Elon Musk in 2022 and rebranded X — the primary global platform for real-time public intellectual discourse, political commentary, and media distribution.
Established the 140/280-character format that created a new form of public discourse — instantaneous, globally visible, and searchable — becoming the primary nervous system of public intellectual and political life in the 2010s–2020s.
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