Way back when is not when it broke mainstream. It's when the service started getting attention.
It was literally pitched as a "micro blog site" for techies to communicate news, and the "app" was 160 character SMS messages.
Nerds used it as a free (as in beer) way of sending alert SMS on server errors. (At least I did).
In 2008, twitter had already started to become mainstream, quickly shifting focus away from nerd interests.
Way back when is not when it broke mainstream. It's when the service started getting attention.
It was literally pitched as a "micro blog site" for techies to communicate news, and the "app" was 160 character SMS messages.
Nerds used it as a free (as in beer) way of sending alert SMS on server errors. (At least I did).
In 2008, twitter had already started to become mainstream, quickly shifting focus away from nerd interests.