One fine day, I decided to dick around with PowerPoint’s charts while waiting for the wife to get off work:
Monthly Archive for July, 2009
Twitter has been around since 2006. I and a group of friends signed up in 2007 because we thought it would be fun.
Back then, Twitter was easy to “get” because there weren’t a lot of users yet, which allowed the service to send updates via SMS to your followers for free. So in those days, nobody really had any trouble understanding what Twitter was: A cheap way to send text messages to your blog buddies while dicking around the internet.
But thanks to the iPhone, the Blackberry, and Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s audience is growing at a geometrical rate. With this large influx of users, Twitter had a hard time keeping up so it disabled a few features like free SMS updates for some regions (read: ours), and as a result we got a lot of people who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return.