X/Twitter

X (formerly Twitter) has certainly grown a lot from the days when you would send tweets via SMS text messages about what you had for breakfast. Founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, the microblogging service turned real-time social media newswire was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022 and renamed and rebranded X in 2023.

Grok, xAI's chatbot.
A phone showing the Grok app held in front of a computer screen with the search "Grok remove clothes."
The Twitter logo is being displayed on a smartphone screen
In the background: a laptop screen showing the Grok logo. In the foreground is a large red no symbol on a phone.
Social media apps on a smartphone - Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter), Truth Social.
A hand holding a phone displaying the Grok logo.

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Elon Musk's X rolls out pay-per-use API to lure developers back, but there's one big problem
X logo on laptop


X to display which nation users post from
Elon Musk's X logo

What does it mean to be 'chronically online'?
A man stares at a computer screen.


Elon Musk's X settles $128 million lawsuit with Twitter executives
Elon Musk and X logo


Apple, OpenAI tell judge to dismiss Elon Musk's App Store lawsuit
Grok app in front of App Store logo

Threads is tracking to surpass X in daily active users
a finger pressing the threads icon on a phone

Bad Bunny is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, but not everyone's cheering
Bad Bunny at the Columbia Pictures "Caught Stealing" New York Premiere


Yet another platform drops Elon Musk's X after API changes
X logo

Elon Musk’s X nears a settlement in $500 million severance pay lawsuit
Elon Musk pressing his fingertips together at an event

Who is actually using Threads?
An aonymous person holding a phone opened to Threads


Grok can't decide if its 'therapist' companion is a therapist or not
Li Hongbo/VCG via Getty Images

Judge blocks FTC inquiry into Media Matters, rules it a 'retaliatory act'
The logo of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, displayed on a smartphone

X and Grok went down, users report. Here's what we know.
grok and x logos on phone and screen


Grok 4 is free for a limited time, as xAI competes with GPT-5
A phone displays the Grok logo in front of a large xAI logo.

Grok Imagine's 'Spicy' mode lacks basic guardrails for sexual deepfakes
The Grok app on a smartphone with a mars wallpaper

Grok Imagine generates unsolicited deepfake nudes of Taylor Swift, report says
Grok's logo on a black screen.

I tested Grok Imagine, and it's no match for Google Veo 3 or Sora
Screenshots of Grok Imagine images and video. (AI-generated content)
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