With the announcment that the Library of congress is going to index tweets all the back to 2006 and google allowing anyone to search on old tweet, I got to thinking when I actually got on Twitter.
A quick search on my Gmail account put me back into late 2006...although they didn't seam to ever send me a registration confirmation. Maybe because I signed up on my phone. Either way I found an interesting chat I had with my Joey about Twitter. Here is how I described Twitter back then:
"its like facebook status thing but not fb"
"ive been trying it but i think its only fun if you know other people on it"
Yes at that point I probably had two friends (Twitter did actually call them friends back then) and it wasn't to exciting. I was probably paying to send out a text message to 40404 to let two people know what I was doing and I'm sure they didn't care and probably weren't even in the same city as I was.
In so many ways it's changed and in many others it hasn't. I think these two statements still hold true. Although maybe it's because Facebook is becoming more like Twitter.
