https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/27/elon-musk-twitter-everything-you-need-to-know/ > Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. > The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech; now, it’s the one-year anniversary since he made his dramatic entrance to the company in October 2022, and the platform has changed so much that even its name is different.