You Have Been Tweeting So Long That…
Wednesday, 18th February 2009
Twitter is growing so fast now, that I thought I would make this fun list for all of us old school twitter users.
You have have been tweeting so long that…
- You remember when Twhirl and Tweetdeck didn’t exist
- You are still surprised that Twitter doesn’t crash and you kinda miss seeing the Fail Whale
- You remember the “Track” feature
- You remember when IM posting worked
- You remember that their was no search feature, then you remember using Terraminds search, then finally Sumize
- You remember how well Sumize worked before Twitter bought it.
- You remember when virtually no companies were on Twitter
- You remember when Chris Brogan use to tweet his phone number for “Calls Chris” what seemed like everyday.
- You remember when no one had custom backgrounds
- You remember a time when Twitter was free of spam and auto direct messages
- You remember that their wasn’t even a reply button on the web interface
- You remember when all of the people who are joining twitter right now said it was stupid a year or two ago
OK so what did I forget? Please add yours in the comments and then I will update the blog post! Big thanks tweeps.
Wayne Sutton
Wednesday, 18th February 2009 at 10:20 am
You have have been tweeting so long that you remember when web 2.0 was the new cool, the words social and media together didn’t make sense and people thought being a twitterholic was a crime!
Mike Quinn
Wednesday, 18th February 2009 at 10:21 am
I remember when twitter was so quiet it was nice to receive the odd tweet via SMS on you mobile in the UK.
stefan
Wednesday, 18th February 2009 at 10:31 am
You remember when you said “Are you on Twitter?” and got glassy-eyed looks.
Dr. Pete
Wednesday, 18th February 2009 at 10:39 am
You remember when Guy Kawasaki’s Tweets didn’t end in “.alltop.com”
JeepChick
Wednesday, 18th February 2009 at 10:58 am
I was one of those that said it was stupid last year.
EMBRACE THE TWITTER!
Jeff
Saturday, 21st February 2009 at 9:03 pm
Stefan: I still get glassy-eyed looks when I talk to people about Twitter. Latest studies indicate that 11% of US adult internet users use Twitter or other conversational networking sites (I don’t call it microblogging because it is not). And the majority of the other 89% have never even heard of twitter.
The people who joined Twitter in the last 3 months are still early adopters. Even the people who join in the next 6 months will be early adopters. We have a long way to go before Twitter is mainstream.
Jeff
@dgtlpapercuts