A Brief History of Twitter
So, Twitter is 3 years old this month (went Beta on March 31st 2006, and Live on June 13th 2006 so depends on what date you use)… I actually have been a member since February 7th 2007 (thanks to this api for that information). I joined a little bit later than it began, but I actually joined prior to @replies became an actual part of Twitter (prior, people used it for communication, but posts were not intricately connected when they were used).
I feel like I’m trying to say “I used them before they were popular” to not sound like a bandwagon fan of the service? Perhaps.
This is a great drawing shows, briefly, how Twitter has expanded over the past 3 years. I’m glad I have been part of it since near the beginning.
Thanks to Tech Crunch for reporting it, which is where I first saw it, I think. I’ve been seeing multiple mentions of it across the web today, and thought that my audience (do I even have one?) would enjoy it as well.
I find it particularly amusing that it includes the Twitpocalypse, which threatened to cause many 3rd party Twitter apps to crash.
History Lesson from Monolith