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.

Elon Musk sold X to another one of his companies.
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Manga artist Hayao Miyazaki, who received an honorary Academy Award for his work, criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's shift in Japan's security policy during a press conference at his studio on July 13, 2015, in Tokyo, Japan.

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