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X (formerly Twitter)

X is a real-time online social networking platform, originally founded in 2006 as Twitter. The company was purchased by Elon Musk in April 2022, and in July 2023 he rebranded the website X, although the site continues to be coloquially referred to as Twitter.

Chairman / President

Elon Musk

CEO / Managing Director

Linda Yaccarino

CFO / Finance Director

Jack Dorsey

Industry

Internet

Website

twitter.com

Headquarters address

San Francisco, California, United States

Stock Code

NYSE:TWTR

Year founded

2010

Elon Musk with ex-girlfriend Jennifer Gwynne at the University of Pennsylvania. Photo: @thebusinessmagnets/Instagram

Millionaires and billionaires

Who is Tesla billionaire and Doge head Elon Musk’s ex, Jennifer Gwynne?

Jennifer Gwynne and Elon Musk met at the University of Pennsylvania, but couldn’t make a long-distance relationship work – she auctioned their keepsakes, including an emerald pendant, in 2022.

14 Mar 2025 - 6:00PM

United States

Outside In | Elon Musk and the worrying political reach of the super-rich

14 Mar 2025 - 4:30PM

Donald Trump

Trump to buy a Tesla in show of support for Musk

11 Mar 2025 - 4:41PM

Elon Musk

Elon Musk says X hit by ‘major cyberattack’

Musk said in an interview the cyberattack came from IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.

11 Mar 2025 - 12:15PM

Elon Musk wears a shirt that says ‘Tech Support’ during a cabinet meeting with US President Donald Trump. Photo: AP

Wellness

Your TikTok addiction is probably rotting your brain. Here’s how

Research suggests that so-called brain rot stems from the compulsive use of short- video platforms, leading to memory loss and even anxiety.

6 Mar 2025 - 11:39AM

Fame and celebrity

Meet Jack Osbourne’s interior-designer wife, ex-editor Aree Gearhart

The couple went public with their relationship in 2019 and married secretly in 2023; they have a daughter and are raising 3 girls from Osbourne’s first marriage, to entrepreneur Lisa Stelly

3 Mar 2025 - 6:00AM

Jimmy Lai trial

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai denies knowingly doing anything ‘specifically illegal’

Despite ‘taking risks’ former media boss insists he stayed on the right side of the national security law’s red lines.

28 Feb 2025 - 6:27PM

Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-Ying arrives at the West Kowloon Court in Cheung Sha Wan. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

Racism and other prejudice

Kanye West’s Yeezy website goes down after Nazi T-shirt sales

A US$20 white T-shirt with a black swastika on the front was the only item available before the brand was removed from Shopify.

12 Feb 2025 - 3:51PM

NBA

Meet NBA star Dennis Schröder, critic of the Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade

Schröder began his career in Germany, joined the Atlanta Hawks in 2013, then featured in numerous NBA deals; he’s married to his high-school sweetheart, with whom he has three children.

9 Feb 2025 - 4:00AM

US-China relations

Elon Musk says he doesn’t want to buy TikTok’s US business after all

‘I usually build companies from scratch,’, said the tech billionaire, who bought Twitter and renamed it X.

9 Feb 2025 - 2:23AMvideocam

Elon Musk walks on Capitol Hill in Washington in December. Photo: Reuters

DeepSeek

DeepSeek warns of impostor accounts as AI app’s popularity soars

The Chinese AI start-up has urged the public to be vigilant of accounts posing as its founder or selling cryptocurrencies in its name.

7 Feb 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

DeepSeek is warning the public against fake social media accounts posing as related to the Chinese AI start-up. Photo: Reuters

TikTok

How Trump 2.0’s embrace of TikTok has given the app a new lease on life in US

Trump’s new-found love for TikTok, born out of his popularity on the Chinese app, has opened a path for a new deal with ByteDance despite legal hurdles.

3 Feb 2025 - 6:57AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Letters | For powers like the US, ‘crimes are those that others commit’

Readers discuss the exceptional impunity that the US enjoys, Donald Trump’s ‘golden age of America’, and Elon Musk’s support for the extreme right.

25 Jan 2025 - 11:30AM

Elon Musk

Elon Musk vs Wikipedia: a clash over how to describe ‘Nazi salute’

Dust-up comes after billionaire Musk made a straight-arm gesture at a Trump inauguration event on Monday.

23 Jan 2025 - 12:22PMvideocam

Elon Musk making a straight-arm gesture during a speech Monday. Photo: AFP

United States

Gamers get under Musk’s skin in feud over Tesla chief’s playing skills

Billionaire fights with seasoned players online amid accusation that he was faking it as a skilled gamer.

18 Jan 2025 - 1:09PMvideocam

Elon Musk’s gaming skills invited scrutiny from seasoned players. Photo: AP

US-China relations

TikTok CEO expected to attend Trump’s inauguration: reports

Incoming administration officials and some Democrats lead effort to try to help popular Chinese-owned app avert being banned in the US.

17 Jan 2025 - 7:23AMvideocam

Elon Musk

Elon Musk sued by US SEC over delayed Twitter stake disclosure

The SEC said Musk bought more than US$500 million of Twitter shares at artificially low prices at the expense of unsuspecting investors.

15 Jan 2025 - 10:38AM

TikTok

China’s TikTok sellers eye Amazon and Shein as US ban looms

Cross-border merchants in China are bracing for an impending ban on TikTok in the US.

14 Jan 2025 - 9:00PM

Social media

Letters | As Meta reins in fact-checking, individuals must step up

Readers discuss the removal of fact-checking programmes from social media, Donald Trump’s expansionist agenda, and child-safe phones.

14 Jan 2025 - 11:30AM

Donald Trump

Meta abandons racial diversity programmes as Zuckerberg woos Trump

The changes come soon after the platform dropped fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the US, and mark a further right-wing shift.

11 Jan 2025 - 11:58AM

Donald Trump

EU stays mum as Trump eyes Greenland and Musk courts far-right

Told to cease ‘lecturing and moralising’, Brussels officials ready for ‘strong transatlantic agenda’ as they ‘defend’ trade interests.

9 Jan 2025 - 3:16PMvideocam

US president-elect Donald Trump takes the stage before he speaks in Greenvale, New York, on December 5, 2024. Photo: AP

United States

Meta replaces fact-checkers in US, adopts X-style ‘Community Notes’ model

Meta has ditched fact-checkers in the US, opting for a community-driven approach to combat misinformation on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

8 Jan 2025 - 4:32PM

Britain

European leaders take aim at Elon Musk amid escalating UK row

The world’s richest man Elon Musk has taken an intense interest in British sex crimes and politics – and some are not pleased.

7 Jan 2025 - 1:28PM

Britain

Starmer slams those ‘spreading lies and misinformation’ after Musk criticism

Starmer defended his record as a prosecutor against Musk’s attacks over historical child rape crimes in the UK, criticising those spreading lies and far-right agitators.

6 Jan 2025 - 9:21PM

Elon Musk

‘Starmer must go’: Elon Musk turns his gaze on Europe’s far-right politics

From Britain to Germany, the Tesla chief’s influence grows in Europe’s politics as he backs the hard-right and challenges democratic institutions.

4 Jan 2025 - 11:35AMvideocam

Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives at Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club in Florida on December 31. Photo: Getty Images/AFP

Fame and celebrity

Meet Antonio Brown’s baby mama, Cydney Moreau – who looks like Gisele Bündchen

Ex-NFL player Antonio Brown is being slammed on social media for a caption he posted on X to wish her a happy birthday recently; the former couple had a baby together last July.

15 Jan 2025 - 4:54PM

Controversial former NFL player Antonio Brown attempted to wish his ex Cydney Moreau happy birthday in December, but ended up insulting her instead. Photos: AB84/X, @cydrrose/Instagram

Artificial intelligence

Meet DeepSeek: the Chinese start-up that is changing how AI models are trained

Hangzhou-based DeepSeek is 2025’s ‘biggest dark horse’ in open-source large language models, Nvidia research scientist Jim Fan says.

28 Jan 2025 - 10:34AM

Millionaires and billionaires

Elon Musk baffles internet with ‘Kekius Maximus’ profile name on X

Billionaire’s new X handle merges alt-right symbols and Gladiator references, sparking crypto surge and online speculation.

1 Jan 2025 - 10:30AM

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