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BlinkReanimated t1_iy7arc6 wrote

Reply to comment by TheRealEvanG in TIL about the TwitterPeek, a Twitter-only mobile device introduced in 2009 that allowed users to send and receive tweets...and nothing else by wilymon

The idea probably predates smartphones entirely. Given that twitter was originally sms-based not web-based, they probably came up with this idea as a means for those without active cell phones to access Twitter in some way, but couldn't get it into production until it was already obsolete.

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TheRealEvanG t1_iy7xh87 wrote

This is an interesting take. I did not know that Twitter was originally SMS-based.

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bolanrox t1_iy81r7v wrote

Where the character limit started from

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davidbenett t1_iy9llf6 wrote

Also hash tags, because everything had to be in-band. Previously tags were popular on blogging platforms but were out-of-band from the message/post.

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