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Comment by bena

5 years ago

I mean originally, it was supposed to be mass SMS. I send a message and anyone who wanted to receive it did so. It was sort of like proto-group SMS messaging.

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thinkingemote  5 years ago

Originally it was also a place to set your Instant messenger status message. Tweets were also called "statuses" for quite a while.

Some of the tweets in the article follow that

Thinkingemote "is thinking about triple tags today"