Khaberni - The first tweet in the world was published on March 21, 2006, by Twitter's founder (now X) Jack Dorsey. However, the digital circles have been buzzing in the past few hours about a post that broke all the rules of logic and time, reopening the file of "time stamp loopholes" on major platforms.
A post from the last century!
The story began when users circulated a screenshot of a tweet dated back to the Japanese comedian Eiko Kano, showing a shocking publishing date: September 2, 1992. The irony lies in that the platform was not even in existence at that time, and "Kano" himself was only ten years old, long years before he started his artistic career in 2003 or created his official account in 2011.
The post that discussed his arrival to the Japanese city of Osaka to work with the comedy duo "Garogaro," who did not even team up until 2003, sparked a wave of astonishment and humor, as followers described Kano as a "time traveler," wondering how a post could predate the service launch by 14 years?!
AI and technical analysis response
This mystery led some users to ask "Grook," the AI of the X platform, who responded with a sarcastic tone confirming there are no tweets older than Jack Dorsey’s, and that what happened was merely a display issue in the operating system that resulted in a fictitious date.
Technically, software experts agreed that what happened was a glitch known as "Timestamp Glitch." In programming languages and databases, time is not stored as texts (day/month/year) but as sequential numbers representing elapsed seconds, and it seems that a glitch in processing these numbers led to the shifting back of the original publishing date -which was actually written in December 2011- to the year 1992.
What was striking was the reaction of the public, whereas the technical glitch would go unnoticed among ordinary people, for "Eiko Kano," it turned into rich entertainment material.
X app was created on March 21, 2006, named "Twitter," and it was developed by the American programmer and businessman Jack Dorsey, in San Francisco, California.
Twitter was initiated with the cooperation of Evan Williams, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone, who worked on it as a research project, sponsored by the American company "Odeo."
Its use was limited among the company's employees, then it was officially launched to the public in October 2006.
On April 25, 2022, Twitter's board of directors unanimously agreed to sell the company to Musk for 44 billion dollars. In April 2023, Twitter was officially renamed "X," and the ticker symbol (TWTR) was removed from major exchanges.