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You could say all the same things about AOL and AOL Keywords 18 years ago...
by hdctambien 10y ago
You could say all the same things about AOL and AOL Keywords 18 years ago...
- JoshTriplett 10y agoYou really couldn't. Yes, people who were online recognized AOL keywords the way they do URLs today, but it never had the pervasiveness that Twitter does. News channels show tweets and hashtags. A large fraction of news shows up on Twitter before it hits other sources of news. It's the platform for putting up a smoke signal, a firsthand account, or a story as it develops. (None of which inherently makes it profitable.)