Twitter turns 10 today

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It has changed the way news is reported, the way information is shared, and the way people connect with each other. Ten years ago on March 21, 2006 Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet ever, “just setting up my twttr,” it read. Born “Twttr” as the brainchild of Dorsey, Ev Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, the service became publicly available just a few months after Dorsey’s first tweet, and the following March, its popularity exploded during the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin. From then on, its mark on Internet culture began, including the use of the “hashtag,” proposed in 2007 by technologist Chris Messina.