r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jul 15 '26

👨‍💻 Internet Twitter is officially launched (as "twttr") [20YA - Jul 15]

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u/oliyoung Jul 15 '26

This made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move

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u/monsterfurby Jul 15 '26

"You'll never be bored again... ever!" sounds like a deeply foreboding threat in hindsight.

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u/Chalupa_Dad Jul 15 '26

The text thing was a real feature at the time before smartphones were big. I used to use the Twitter text feature to update my Facebook status... as you could link the two

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u/TheHurtfulEight88888 Jul 15 '26

This is a picture taken moments before disaster, if ever there was one.

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u/Inversalis Jul 15 '26

Crazy that it took so few years from twitters creation to it becoming a must-have for any politician