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Originally, Dorsey pitched Twitter as an SMS-based communication platform, where you could post a status about what you were doing. A more public version of "texting". (MacArthur, 2018)
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Dorsey posted the very first Tweet on the 21st March, 2006, at 9:50pm. It said, "just setting up my twtter". (MacArthur, 2018)
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This occurred at the South by Southwest Conference in 2007, and was one of the most pivotal moments in Twitter's history. (MacArthur, 2018)
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In the 2008 US Election, Barack Obama overtook his opponent John McCain after gaining about 20 times more Twitter followers than McCain (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.).
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This was an important moment, where founders Dorsey, Williams and Stone realised Twitter's potential (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.).
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Kutcher was in a race with CNN to become the first Twitter user to gain a million followers (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.).
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Janis Krums tweeted the news that US AIRWAYS Flight 1549 had landed safely on the Hudson River (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.).
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After the Haiti Earthquake, Twitter was used as a way to share the Red Cross fundraiser campaign for the victims. They raised over $8 million (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.).
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And still growing (Wolfe, 2018).
