What Elon’s giving up: Twitter’s best moments – from Boaty McBoatface to Trump’s ban

Elon Musk says he no longer wants to buy Twitter - but the social media platform has changed the world, made us laugh, and made us furious. We look at some of its landmark moments

In April, when Elon Musk announced plans to buy Twitter, the platform's users instantly divided into two clear camps: those who thought that Musk would ruin Twitter, and those who understood that it was already pretty dreadful. Now that Musk has said he is walking away from the deal, a third group is complaining that without an injection of go-getting, Musk-style disruption the platform is doomed to irrelevancy.

Everyone needs to calm down. While Twitter does now primarily operate as a receptacle for the world's angriest people to scream their least thought-out arguments at each other around the clock, it can still also be a force for good. Since its inception, Twitter has proved that it is brilliant at two key things: accelerating social change, and illuminating the depths of human stupidity. Here are 10 standout moments from Twitter history.