Twitter is 20 years old. Here's how the first tweet sparked a social media revolution — and what became of the platform today.
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It’s Been 20 Years Since The First Tweet
Twitter Turns 20: How One Tweet Changed the Internet Forever Twenty years ago today, a single sentence changed how the world communicates. On March 21, 2006, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey typed the words "just setting up my twittr" — and with that, a new era of real-time digital conversation was born. Two decades later, the platform that started it all looks almost unrecognizable. The Tweet That Started a Global Conversation It was not poetic. It was not political. It was not even spelled correctly. But Dorsey's first post on what would become Twitter was the spark that lit one of the most influential communication platforms in modern history. What began as a simple microblogging experiment grew into a global town square. Politicians announced policies on it. Celebrities built careers through it. Journalists broke news in real time using it. Within a decade, Twitter had become so deeply embedded in daily life that the phrase "I saw it on Twitter" became shorthand …
