Twitter's 20-Year Journey: Memes, Social Movements, and Transformation

Launched to users on 15 July 2006, Twitter fundamentally changed content creation and global communication on the internet over the past twenty years.

Eventually becoming a public square, the platform offered everyone from world leaders to ordinary users the opportunity to share their thoughts in 140 (later 280) characters. Rebranded as X in 2023, the site…