FWIF, way back when, Twitter was the "Twitter for tech nerds".

Lots of water under the fridge since...

That's not how I remember it. Ever since the beginning circa 2008, it was the one site that was being pushed hard by the mainstream media, celebrities, and marketers. None of it was organic. All the tech nerds were on sites like Digg, old Reddit, or Slashdot.

	▲	hnlmorg an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Early Twitter was used loads by tech nerds as a notifications API. There definitely was a community of experimentation back in early days.

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reactordev 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

“Just place all that corporate malware on the X, X marks the spot”

	▲	taylor-tg 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just have to remember that it's X, not Y, that marks the spot.