Richard MacManus on Nostr: “What are you doing?” This was the prompt that Twitter users saw throughout 2007. ...
“What are you doing?” This was the prompt that Twitter users saw throughout 2007. It explains why so many early tweets were about eating lunch. To be fair, nobody knew back then how to do microblogging, the 2007 term for writing short posts — 140 characters or less in Twitter’s case. Along with Facebook and Flickr, Twitter was literally inventing social media.
https://cybercultural.com/p/twitter-in-2007-key-facts/Published at
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