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>> "celebrities started turning up on Twitter once they heard it was getting popular. They didn't make it popular in the first place. It got popular because it
by axod 18y ago
>> "celebrities started turning up on Twitter once they heard it was getting popular. They didn't make it popular in the first place. It got popular because it was useful."
I don't know, myself, and I'm sure several others, only bothered with it to see @stephenfry tweets. And I'm pretty sure he's been on it for a long time now.
- doug_m 18y agoI agree - in the UK Twitter seemed to stay under the radar for a long time compared to the US then one week the BBC seemed to brief staff on it and the large scale public adoption was overnight and very much celebrity or central-media driven.