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X was acquired by xAI (Mar 2025)
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Social Media Advertisingx.com

X is a social media platform that allows businesses to promote their products and services to over 611 million active monthly users through its advertising offering, X Ads.

Last updated Oct 5, 2026 by the ATDb Editorial Team · Connections updated Oct 14, 2026

Founded
2006
HQ
San Francisco, California, United States
Parent
xAI
Connections
107

AI-drafted from public sources19 sources cited

At a glance

Employees
1001-5000
Funding
$44B acquisition by Elon Musk (2022)
Revenue
$2B-$4B
34integrations6competitors2corporate family1acquisitions

About

One of the world's largest social media advertising platforms, uniquely positioned around real-time public conversation and now integrated within xAI's AI-driven technology ecosystem

X is a social media platform that allows businesses to promote their products and services to over 611 million active monthly users through its advertising offering, X Ads. X has revamped its advertising platform with AI capabilities that use contextual and semantic signals to determine which ads to show where, with the system designed to understand user behavior and place ads in real time. Advertisers can optimize campaigns around outcomes including sales, leads, website traffic, engagement, video views, and app installs, with targeting available across keywords, interests, followers, and location. Ad formats span promoted image, video, and carousel ads, full-screen vertical video, Amplify pre-roll aligned to publisher content, Dynamic Product Ads that personalize to individual shoppers, and Collection Ads designed to showcase multiple products and drive purchases. X Ads is used by a broad range of advertisers, from small businesses — which make up 48.1% of its customer base — to enterprise companies such as Deloitte, Samsung, and JPMorgan Chase. Within the competitive advertising networks market, X Ads occupies a niche centered on real-time, conversation-driven advertising that larger platforms do not replicate as directly. Source 1: thriveagency.com — The Ultimate Guide to Twitter (X) Advertising Source 2: adweek.com — X Revamps Its Ads Manager, Folding in New AI ... Source 3: x.com — Advertise on X Source 4: technologychecker.io — Companies Using Twitter X Ads in 2026

Business model

Advertising Platform

Target market

Enterprise, Mid-Market, SMB

What they offer

  • Promoted Ads

    Native in-feed advertisements that appear in users' timelines, targeted by interest, behavior, demographics, and keywords

  • Trend Takeover

    High-visibility ad placements within the Trending Topics section, enabling brands to dominate cultural conversations

  • X Amplify

    Pre-roll and mid-roll video advertising product that places brand content alongside premium publisher video

  • Dynamic Product Ads

    Retargeting ad format that automatically serves personalized product ads based on user browsing and purchase behavior

  • X Live

    Live video streaming and sponsorship capabilities for real-time brand events and activations

  • Grok Integration

    AI assistant powered by xAI's Grok model, embedded into the platform to enhance user experience and open new AI-driven ad and content opportunities

  • X Ads Manager

    Self-serve campaign management dashboard for creating, managing, and measuring advertising campaigns across X

  • X API

    Developer API providing access to platform data, enabling third-party AdTech integrations, analytics, and social listening tools

Key features

Real-time audience targeting based on live conversation signalsInterest, keyword, follower lookalike, and behavioral targetingPromoted Trends and Trend Takeover for cultural moment marketingVideo advertising with pre-roll and mid-roll formatsGrok AI integration for enhanced platform intelligenceRobust developer API for third-party integrationsBrand safety controls and content adjacency filtersConversion tracking and measurement toolsRetargeting via Dynamic Product AdsGlobal reach with localized targeting capabilities

Use cases

Brand awareness campaigns tied to live cultural and news eventsPerformance marketing and direct response advertisingProduct launch amplification via Trend TakeoversRetargeting website visitors with Dynamic Product AdsVideo content distribution and pre-roll advertisingPolitical and advocacy advertisingB2B lead generation targeting professional and industry audiencesSocial listening and audience research via API

Customer segments

Global enterprise brandsDirect-to-consumer (DTC) advertisersPolitical campaigns and advocacy organizationsMedia and entertainment companiesFinancial services brandsTechnology companiesSports organizations and leaguesSMB advertisers via self-serve platform

Tech & specs

Technology stack

ScalaJavaPythonHadoopKafkaManhattan (proprietary distributed database)GraphQLReactGrok AI (xAI)Real-time bidding infrastructureMachine learning for ad targeting and ranking

Security & compliance

GDPRCCPASOC 2COPPA

Deployment

Cloud

API

Yes

Corporate history
  1. 2006 · Founded
  2. 2023Renamed from Twitter3 sources
  3. 2025Acquired by xAI
    Still operating as part of xAI
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