Who is the founder of Twitter?

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Correct — A, Jack Dorsey. Jack Dorsey is popularly credited as the founder of Twitter (launched 2006) — he wrote the initial project concept, posted the platform's first tweet ('just setting up my twttr'), and served as its first CEO. Twitter was actually built by a founding team of four — Dorsey along with Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams — but Dorsey is the individual most commonly credited and tested as 'the founder.'

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Co-founder and CEO of Facebook (launched 2004) — a different social-media platform, not Twitter.  (c) A French digital-strategy consultant and blogger known for commentary and infographics on the social-media landscape — not a founder of Twitter.  (d) An American computer scientist and pioneer of artificial intelligence — he coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence' and created the Lisp programming language; not connected to Twitter's founding.

Concept: Twitter (now X) was launched in 2006, created by a founding team at the podcasting company Odeo — Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. Dorsey wrote the original concept and posted the platform's first tweet, and became Twitter's first CEO, which is why he is most commonly credited and tested as 'the founder.'

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