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The first big Twitter growth moment was in 2007 at SXSW.

"The company set up two 60-inch plasma screens in the convention center’s hallways on which it streamed live tweets, and attendees quickly used the service to communicate with each other"

They went from 20k --> 60k tweets / day over the weekend.

I'll use this thread as "early twitter stories", to keep the main channel clear.

> The Follow Friday tradition started in 2009 when a Twitter user named Micah Baldwin thought it a good idea for everyone to suggest people to follow in tweets [..]

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I'll use this thread as "early twitter stories", to keep the main channel clear.

> The Follow Friday tradition started in 2009 when a Twitter user named Micah Baldwin thought it a good idea for everyone to suggest people to follow in tweets [..]
https://www.lifewire.com/a-guide-to-follow-friday-2655376