As #RIPTwitter #TwitterDown #GoodByeTwitter trend, here's a thread on my first blog on Twitter. I wrote this after using Twitter for few days the first time: sanjukta.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/do-…
July 2007.
July 2007.
I joined in July 2007 out of FOMO. All the techies around me in Bangalore were talking about it and I felt left out. "...quite cool. That’s the thing with these technologies. Everyday they are inventing new means to make your virtual identity more vivid," I wrote.
"Twitter as the name suggest is a chirp. I am sitting at my workplace while my boyfriend is having lunch with a client. So I go to my twitter account and twitter, “My boss just yelled at me that asshole.” My bf would get this message either on his twitter page or Gtalk..."
That's how embarassingly useless I thought Twitter was in the beginning. Shout "my boss is ahole" to the world so my boyfriend can hear 😂. Obviously, none of us had a clue. That's exactly what we were in fact doing on Twitter those days.
You could only use twitter from the web. Mobile internet was not a thing. But there was an SMS feature. The tweets could be delivered to your phone. Only Airtel number. So the thing i found useful was that you can send an SMS to multiple users. This was the secret power.
My fav thing about Twitter in the beginning was that it was both impersonal yet personal. Say one evening I am sad, need a hug, but don't want to make it obvious to anybody in particular. So i tweet. It would reach all including intended recipient. This remains my fav.
Apologies that back then all my analogies and metaphors were about men and dating and shit like that. But these features really contained the power why Twitter became the chosen place for information seeking and giving during crises like Covid, 26/11.
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