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Twitter invented a problem and then solved. They just solved it in a way that made people feel self-important, hence the growth. I don't yet know what social m

• bad_user 16y ago
  > Twitter invented a problem and then solved They haven't invented anything ... they just brought an existing paradigm to the Internet: and that would be SMS messages. And don't know about the US, but SMS messages have been all the rage and are still really popular, with some anecdotal evidence of how similar they are .... Retwitting (CHECK): I got the same jokes over SMS from multiple people. Many-to-many communication medium (CHECK): Around every holiday, people are sending SMS messages with greetings to a whole list of people. It costs a lot more than on Twitter so it only happens around holidays. List of connections (CHECK): it's called a phone-book, and phones have one incorporated. Messages limited to 140 chars, encouraging retard-like talk (CHECK): of corZ, ritN crrct sentences S jst so lst yr