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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

A girl uses her phone as she walks with a group of children in Sydney on Monday. Photo: AP

Australia

‘#seeyouwhenim16’: Australia’s social media ban for children takes effect

PM Albanese called the ban, which is being closely watched by other nations considering similar measures, ‘a proud day’ for families.

10 Dec 2025 - 3:58PMvideocam

United States

EU’s US$140 million fine on X riles Rubio’s deputy, stoking tensions

7 Dec 2025 - 12:50PM

European Union

EU hits Musk’s X with US$140 million fine, risking Trump’s ire

6 Dec 2025 - 1:32AM

Tencent

Elon Musk reiterates aim to transform X into a ‘WeChat++’ super app

Users ‘live their life on WeChat in China’ and there is no equivalent app elsewhere in the world, the entrepreneur says.

3 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek releases first open AI model with gold-level scores at maths olympiad

‘Imagine owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free,’ Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says in a post on X.

29 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM

United States

ChatGPT and X among sites disrupted in worldwide Cloudflare outage

The company, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, says a fix has been deployed and services restored.

19 Nov 2025 - 1:57AM

US-China relations

Hasan Piker’s China tour draws fire after viral Tiananmen police encounter

Critics say Piker’s praise for China and on-camera run-in highlight risks for Western creators in a sensitive media environment.

29 Nov 2025 - 1:18AM

American political commentator and live-streamer Hasan Piker was stopped by a police officer while waiting to watch the daily sunset flag-raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square. Photo: Screenshot from Twitch

Artificial intelligence

China’s Moonshot AI launches new model lauded as No 1 among open-source systems

Kimi K2 Thinking sets ‘new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities’, Moonshot AI researchers say.

8 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM

United States

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to rival ‘left-biased’ Wikipedia

The website’s content is generated by artificial intelligence and generative AI assistant Grok.

29 Oct 2025 - 3:29AMvideocam

Crime

UK far-right figure Tommy Robinson back in court over refusal to give phone PIN

Robinson had refused a police order to unlock his phone, claiming it contained videos related to his journalism work.

14 Oct 2025 - 10:36AM

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson holds a mobile phone as he arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Photo: AFP

Icons and Influencers

Explainer | Meet Caitlin Covington, the woman synonymous with ‘Christian girl autumn’

The woman behind the meme has given us yearly autumn content since 2019 – and she is neither Republican nor homophobic, as the internet believed.

14 Oct 2025 - 6:00AM

Caitlin Covington, the face of “Christian girl autumn”, in a season-ready outfit in 2022. Photo: @cmcoving/Instagram

Donald Trump

YouTube to pay US$24.5 million to settle Trump account suspension lawsuit

Trump brought the legal action against the company after his account was suspended following the US Capitol riots in January 2021.

30 Sep 2025 - 7:51AMvideocam

United States

‘Censoring me’: Musk’s Grok AI suspended from X after Gaza ‘genocide’ claims

The suspension came after an update loosened Grok’s filters, causing it to respond bluntly on topics like Gaza and triggering flags for ‘hate speech’.

13 Aug 2025 - 5:51PM

Computer hackers

Hacked Elmo X account called for extermination of Jews, US media reports

Antisemitic posts and messages calling Trump a ‘puppet’ of Netanyahu were shared on Sesame Street character’s account by an ‘unknown hacker’.

15 Jul 2025 - 2:00AM

The Sesame Street character Elmo. Photo: AP

United States

Musk’s xAI apologises after Grok chatbot praises Hitler

The company blamed the offensive posts on a software update meant to make the artificial intelligence assistant act more like a human.

13 Jul 2025 - 3:04AMvideocam

Grok, which Elon Musk promised would be an “edgy” truthteller following its launch in 2023, has been mired in controversy. Photo illustration: dpa

Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk unveils xAI’s updated chatbot, Grok 4, after antisemitism controversy

The world’s wealthiest person says Grok 4 is ‘smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously’.

10 Jul 2025 - 4:21PM

Elon Musk

Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Musk’s X, amid Grok AI chatbot scandal

The move came after what she called ‘two incredible years’, with one analyst saying Yaccarino ‘lasted longer than many expected’.

10 Jul 2025 - 1:56AMvideocam

Japan

Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who murdered and dismembered 9

Takahiro Shiraishi lured his mostly young, female victims through social media, dismembering their bodies after killing them.

27 Jun 2025 - 10:38AM

Takahiro Shiraishi leaving a police station in 2017. File photo: Kyodo via AP

United States

Elon Musk’s xAI burning through US$1 billion a month as costs pile up

The artificial intelligence start-up is seeking to raise US$9.3 billion, with plans to spend over half of it in just the next three months.

18 Jun 2025 - 3:05AMvideocam

Icons and Influencers

Meet Tami Radabaugh, the Fox News alum working with Pete Hegseth

Radabaugh’s State of Grace Media is billed as ‘a reimagined media company founded on faith’ – the mother of 2 also says she’s working on a faith-based docuseries.

4 Jun 2025 - 4:00AM

United States

US to scrutinise visas for officials, targeting those ‘responsible for censorship’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans’ social media posts.

28 May 2025 - 11:48PMvideocam

Tourists outside the White House. The administration of US President Donald Trump – himself a prolific and often confrontational social media user – has also sharply criticised allies Germany and Britain for restricting what the governments term hate speech. Photo: EPA-EFE

Malaysia

Malaysia’s home minister ridiculed after his WhatsApp account hacked

Critics question how Saifuddin Nasution can keep the country safe if he cannot even secure his own phone.

27 May 2025 - 4:10PM

Malaysia Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. Photo: Facebook/Saifuddin Nasution Ismail

Indonesia

Indonesia’s online porn crackdown nets 380,000 content removals

Authorities have also blocked dozens of social media groups and accounts, including some promoting incest and child porn.

21 May 2025 - 2:00PM

Fame and celebrity

Banned elsewhere, Kanye West’s pro-Hitler song gets millions of views on X

The video shows the hip-hop star rapping about ex-wife Kim Kardashian and ends with an extract of a speech by the Nazi leader.

18 May 2025 - 4:47AMvideocam

DeepSeek

DeepSeek speculation swirls online over Chinese AI start-up’s R2 model

The latest speculation includes R2’s imminent launch and the new benchmarks that it set in terms of cost-efficiency and performance.

28 Apr 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

DeepSeek’s R2 artificial intelligence model was said to have been trained on a server cluster of Huawei Technologies’ Ascend 910B chips, according to Chinese social-media posts. Photo: Shutterstock

Meta Platforms

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14 Apr 2025 - 2:32PM

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Blockchain

Hong Kong lawmaker calls for support of Web3 sector as Tron founder flags fraud

The call comes after cryptocurrency mogul Justin Sun denounced alleged ‘loopholes’ in Hong Kong’s trust regulations.

3 Apr 2025 - 9:30PM

Icons and Influencers

Meet Elon Musk’s ‘lieutenant’, Steve Davis – whom Musk said was like ‘chemo’

Davis started working for Musk in 2003, when SpaceX was still a relatively new company, and in 2022 he reportedly slept at the Twitter office with his partner after she had just given birth.

2 Apr 2025 - 6:00AM

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X (formerly Twitter)

‘#seeyouwhenim16’: Australia’s social media ban for children takes effect

PM Albanese called the ban, which is being closely watched by other nations considering similar measures, ‘a proud day’ for families.

EU’s US$140 million fine on X riles Rubio’s deputy, stoking tensions

EU hits Musk’s X with US$140 million fine, risking Trump’s ire

Elon Musk reiterates aim to transform X into a ‘WeChat++’ super app

Users ‘live their life on WeChat in China’ and there is no equivalent app elsewhere in the world, the entrepreneur says.

DeepSeek releases first open AI model with gold-level scores at maths olympiad

‘Imagine owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free,’ Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says in a post on X.

ChatGPT and X among sites disrupted in worldwide Cloudflare outage

The company, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, says a fix has been deployed and services restored.

Hasan Piker’s China tour draws fire after viral Tiananmen police encounter

Critics say Piker’s praise for China and on-camera run-in highlight risks for Western creators in a sensitive media environment.

China’s Moonshot AI launches new model lauded as No 1 among open-source systems

Kimi K2 Thinking sets ‘new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities’, Moonshot AI researchers say.

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to rival ‘left-biased’ Wikipedia

The website’s content is generated by artificial intelligence and generative AI assistant Grok.

UK far-right figure Tommy Robinson back in court over refusal to give phone PIN

Robinson had refused a police order to unlock his phone, claiming it contained videos related to his journalism work.

.css-sioo19{color:#c79a00;}Explainer | Meet Caitlin Covington, the woman synonymous with ‘Christian girl autumn’

The woman behind the meme has given us yearly autumn content since 2019 – and she is neither Republican nor homophobic, as the internet believed.

YouTube to pay US$24.5 million to settle Trump account suspension lawsuit

Trump brought the legal action against the company after his account was suspended following the US Capitol riots in January 2021.

‘Censoring me’: Musk’s Grok AI suspended from X after Gaza ‘genocide’ claims

The suspension came after an update loosened Grok’s filters, causing it to respond bluntly on topics like Gaza and triggering flags for ‘hate speech’.

Hacked Elmo X account called for extermination of Jews, US media reports

Antisemitic posts and messages calling Trump a ‘puppet’ of Netanyahu were shared on Sesame Street character’s account by an ‘unknown hacker’.

Musk’s xAI apologises after Grok chatbot praises Hitler

The company blamed the offensive posts on a software update meant to make the artificial intelligence assistant act more like a human.

Elon Musk unveils xAI’s updated chatbot, Grok 4, after antisemitism controversy

The world’s wealthiest person says Grok 4 is ‘smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously’.

Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Musk’s X, amid Grok AI chatbot scandal

The move came after what she called ‘two incredible years’, with one analyst saying Yaccarino ‘lasted longer than many expected’.

Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who murdered and dismembered 9

Takahiro Shiraishi lured his mostly young, female victims through social media, dismembering their bodies after killing them.

Elon Musk’s xAI burning through US$1 billion a month as costs pile up

The artificial intelligence start-up is seeking to raise US$9.3 billion, with plans to spend over half of it in just the next three months.

Meet Tami Radabaugh, the Fox News alum working with Pete Hegseth

Radabaugh’s State of Grace Media is billed as ‘a reimagined media company founded on faith’ – the mother of 2 also says she’s working on a faith-based docuseries.

US to scrutinise visas for officials, targeting those ‘responsible for censorship’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans’ social media posts.

Malaysia’s home minister ridiculed after his WhatsApp account hacked

Critics question how Saifuddin Nasution can keep the country safe if he cannot even secure his own phone.

Indonesia’s online porn crackdown nets 380,000 content removals

Authorities have also blocked dozens of social media groups and accounts, including some promoting incest and child porn.

Banned elsewhere, Kanye West’s pro-Hitler song gets millions of views on X

The video shows the hip-hop star rapping about ex-wife Kim Kardashian and ends with an extract of a speech by the Nazi leader.

DeepSeek speculation swirls online over Chinese AI start-up’s R2 model

The latest speculation includes R2’s imminent launch and the new benchmarks that it set in terms of cost-efficiency and performance.

.css-rcruog{color:#C79A00;}Video | How Big Tech’s shift toward Trump impacts Asia

Social media has been blamed for inciting violence, spreading hate, misinformation and disinformation in Asia

Hong Kong lawmaker calls for support of Web3 sector as Tron founder flags fraud

The call comes after cryptocurrency mogul Justin Sun denounced alleged ‘loopholes’ in Hong Kong’s trust regulations.

Meet Elon Musk’s ‘lieutenant’, Steve Davis – whom Musk said was like ‘chemo’

Davis started working for Musk in 2003, when SpaceX was still a relatively new company, and in 2022 he reportedly slept at the Twitter office with his partner after she had just given birth.

Explainer | Meet Caitlin Covington, the woman synonymous with ‘Christian girl autumn’

Video | How Big Tech’s shift toward Trump impacts Asia