The first tweet was charge on March 21 , 2006 when cofounder and current CEO Jack Dorseytweeted , “ just setting up my twttr . ” Twitter had few vowels when it launched , which was the trend at the time with services like Tumblr and Flickr . In just a few age it would become a massive on-line service .
But what did people think of Twitter when it first launch ?
The first review of the service put out byTechcrunchwas largely convinced , stress the other SMS - based nature of the service . chirrup users would text a issue to send off a tweet , which made its fiber limit of 140 character not something that was only arbitrary . That ’s all that the organization could have got .
Illustration: Elena Scotti (Photos: Shutterstock, Getty Images, Twitter
From Techcrunch on July 15 , 2006 :
People are using it to send message like “ Cleaning my flat ” and “ Hungry ” . you’re able to also add supporter via schoolbook message , poke at admirer , etc . It really a societal web around school text messaging – and is very similar to another service calledDodgeball .
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There is also a privateness issue with Twttr . Every user has apublic pagethat evince all of their message . message from that person’sextended networkare also public . I conceive of most user are not go to require to have all of their Twttr messages publish on a public website .
If this was a new startup , a one or two person workshop , I ’d give it a thumbs up for origination and good execution of instrument on a simple but viral approximation .
Slate , which often expend the 2000s as the go - to place for professional contrarianism , published an article onNovember 27 , 2006that ridiculed the vulgar idea of what Twitter could be :
For the ultimate in solipsism , retard out Twitter.com , a internet site where — once you show — you may answer the question , “ What are you doing ? ” At 7:47 a.m. on Monday , for example , Lynda was run to get a drinking glass of stale piddle .
This resurrect more questions than it answers . Did she get it ? Was it frigid enough ? Tragically , we ’ll never know until someone start a site about what you were doing before what you ’re doing now . Or possibly an interactive site about what you are going to do next after you stop doing what you ’re doing now . There could be multiple options . citizenry could vote . Hey , someone call Google . We ’re rich !
ALos Angeles Timesstory was syndicated to newspapers across the country in late December of 2006 , excuse that Twitter could very well be the future of the net , even if it seemed a bit commonplace :
Twitter works by hypercharging societal networks such as those on MySpace or Friendster . A new Twitter user creates a very canonic profile and then creates a miniskirt - web by linking to his or her friends , syndicate , acquaintances and pretty side find through browsing the website . Then , whenever the mood fall upon , the user logs in to Twitter.com ( or sends it a line via schoolbook or instant courier ) , fix the “ What ’re you doing ” question in 150 [ sic ] theatrical role or few . Once you chime in with your later activity or pondering , your message is radiated out to all the members of your lot , who can check in at their Thomas Nelson Page to see what their friends are up to , or better still , receive flashing updates on their cell phones or instant messenger whenever a friend moderate in .
The solvent , according to Jack Dorsey , the force play behind Twitter , “ convey you closer to everyone , because you lie with what everyone is doing , things you would never imagine . ”
On a typical Sunday eventide , a glimpse at Twitter ’s public Sir Frederick Handley Page , where its users ’ collective messages are posted , does give away a cross surgical incision of what might be a moment in the lifetime of the Information Generation .
Twitter saw explosive growth in 2008 , and by the summertime of that year people were already dig fun at the Twitter hype .
One guy named Ben Walker even write a strain for YouTube , appropriately titled “ The Twitter Song ” with lyrics like :
You ’re no one if you ’re not on Twitter
And if you ’re not there already you ’ve missed it
If you have n’t been bookmarked , retweeted and blogged , you might as well not have existed
You might as well not have existed
Walker got particularly energise when actress Demi Moore tweeted his video
Hilarious ! RT@Ammidon : Just for sport … “You’re No One If You ’re Not On Twitter " … ♫ http://blip.fm/~4bcwc
— Demi Moore ( @justdemi)April 14 , 2009
By early 2009 , Twitter was democratic enough that local television news stations started doing explainers on the service , like this one fromKMBC 9 in Kansas City .
If nothing else , the videos from 2009 give you a sentience of just how dissimilar the user interface of Twitter look a tenner ago .
Twitter would go on to play an integral role in macrocosm politics , starting perhaps with the so - called Arab Spring of 2010 - 2011 , where millions took to the streets in the Middle East and North Africa to involve political reforms . Social culture medium political program like Twitter were credited with admit to people organize objection and administration like Egypt did everything they could to censor Twitter .
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By 2016 , Twitter would be subservient in the election of Donald Trump , who became president thanks in no modest part to his racist , misogynist rhetoric on the platform .
And while there are plenitude of things wrong with Twitter , it has also been an invaluable resource for people attend forinformationduring our latest crisis , provide information like how to3D - mark ventilator , how to hack live ventilators toserve more people , and just mostly spreading useful information about how the disease isspreading around the world .
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chirrup still has a few kinks to work out . And though I probably have Twitter to thank for things like my chore , it can still be a space of more randomness than signal . And then , of track , there are the Nazis . One 24-hour interval , hopefully they ’ll get around to ousting the Nazis . We can dream in these trying times , ca n’t we ?
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