Fifteen years? It feels more like 15 centuries.
Stand in the raging torrent known as the timeline, surrounded by tweets that will delight and distract and infuriate you, and it’s hard to believe this mighty river ever came from a tiny trickle — much less that the trickle began a mere decade and a half ago.
But that’s exactly how much time has passed since Jack Dorsey, an unknown engineer at a San Francisco podcasting startup, typed his first words into its experimental texting service, twttr, on March 21, 2006: “Inviting coworkers.” (The famous “just setting up my twttr” was an automated tweet.) Read more…
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