My oh my, what a year it’s been. After several months of back-and-forth between billionaire and tech tycoon Elon Musk and social media company Twitter, the former officially took over as owner of the platform one year ago on Oct. 26, 2022.
We said goodbye to verification and hello to paid verification. We said adios to Twitter and hello to X. Some of us bid adieu to Twitter altogether and said hello to Meta’s platform clone Threads. As we approach the first birthday of Musk’s Twitter, plenty of newsworthy events have happened—most of them bad. As such, we can take a look at 12 of the worst moments (and four honorable mentions) in the last year of Twitter under Musk’s tutelage.
Please note: This article will henceforth refer to the platform as Twitter because X is a stupid name.
